Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> On Friday, 11. May 2001 18:50, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > I can only agree. The tradtional kmail address book is a pain to use and
> > should have been faded out before KDE-2. The KAB frontend is better, but
> > still far behind abbrower IMO. abbrowser offers everything you need for an
> > adressbook application is easy to use and integrates well into kmail. We
> > should really make it the default for KDE-2.2 and get rid of the other
> > variants.
> >
> > It is IMO _very_ important, that the default settings of applications (even
> > if they still offer other alternatives) point to the implementation of a
> > certain feature (in this case an addressbook), that provides the best
> > solution for the problem, and not default to some mostly useless
> > implementation.
> >
> yes, yes, yes. Traditional kmail and kab both can't stand any serious
> usability testing I'm afraid :(
> 
> Use abbrowser and integrate it into kmail.
...and change kmail to start up the GUI right away, then show a progress
bar that indicates it's loading the mail directories and use
processEvents() during this phase so the GUI refreshes itself on paint
events. That will make a much better impression and will look waaay
faster than it is now on startup.

Ralf
> 
> Greetings, Stephan
> 
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