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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Bug with deleting events in korganizer/kontact
From:       Timo Springmann <t.springmann () linet-services ! de>
Date:       2005-06-29 16:57:50
Message-ID: 200506291857.53900.t.springmann () linet-services ! de
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Hi list,

On Mittwoch 29 Juni 2005 17:57, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> Could you document your testing steps and e-mail them to the list?

Actually there are no "testing steps". At the moment we're running a webbased 
groupware (OpenGroupware.org), mostly for appointments. Since a few month 
everyone in our company is using kmail/kontact as mail application. Before 
that everyone used his favorite application. We're not satisfied with OGo - 
actually we wanted something different than a webbased groupware. 

I'm a KDE user since the first Betas so I'm used to kmail and korganizer. So 
we decided to give kontact a try. I tried to use kontact parallel to my other 
calendar in daily use with storing appointments, tasks and kontacts on the 
imap server (standart cyrus - nothing special as far as I can tell). We 
thought about using kolab as backend but our infrastructure setup (ldap, 
cyrus, postfix etc.) is too customized to convert easily. 

While I used kontact during the last months I encounterd different problems. 
Some which I could resolve with help from this list (thanks so far), some 
which I could resolve with applying patches and rebuild the packages. But 
there are still some glitches which make me think kdepim isn't ready for 
corporate use.

Everytime I install a test setup (server, 2 clients) and run some tests (send 
mails and invitations, manage events, task etc) it _seems_ to work. But as 
soon as we try to use it in the real world on a daily basis (my co-worker and 
me spend nearly the whole day in configuring und testing kontact) it behave 
really unreliable. As we are supposed to do some "real work" we can't afford 
more hours in testing kontact/korganizer.

"Unreliable" means, that some things stop working without any reasons (at 
least that's what we see) and then, some minutes later it worked again. Then 
there're some things that work on one maschine, but didn't do on another 
(same distribution, same packaged, same server, different user).

As much as I like KDE/Kontact/KMail it's not usable in _corporate_ use (at 
least not in our company). As long as appointments disappear irregular we can 
stay with our webbased solution and miss appointments because we forgot to 
look at that webpage.

As you see, there're no testcases, just real world usage...

Regards,
Timo

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