KDE struggles with feature requests [LWN.net]

KDE struggles with feature requests

Posted Aug 17, 2009 14:10 UTC (Mon) by amit (subscriber, #1274)
In reply to: KDE struggles with feature requests by amit
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OK, a lot of folks pointed out why my examples were bad ones.

Even then, I'd imagine:
- there would be an imap library which can be shared across projects
- my example was about the dimap support; I failed to mention that.
- procmail additions and recipes to make it support akonadi or any other backend that's used to store mail

As for phonon and kwin, the KDE community could have stepped up and taken up a greater role and say in some upstream communities rather than just saying "it might break" or "we don't want the maintenance overhead".

I'd again like to emphasize that my comments were not originally about KDE in particular but about DEs in general.

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KDE struggles with feature requests

Posted Aug 18, 2009 10:49 UTC (Tue) by johnflux (subscriber, #58833) [Link]

Even then, I'd imagine:
- there would be an imap library which can be shared across projects

Heh, as the poster just above you said, KMail is currently switching to using an imap library that can be shared across projects - Akonadi.

- my example was about the dimap support; I failed to mention that.
- procmail additions and recipes to make it support akonadi or any other backend that's used to store mail

Next version will support Akonadi.

KDE struggles with feature requests

Posted Aug 18, 2009 10:52 UTC (Tue) by amit (subscriber, #1274) [Link]

Akonadi is the storage backend, not an imap library.

KDE struggles with feature requests

Posted Aug 24, 2009 14:01 UTC (Mon) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]

Akonadi is not a storage backend.

IMAP servers, maildir folder or mbox file are possible storage backends
for mail in Akonadi.