From kdepim-users Sat Apr 21 16:09:04 2012 From: Markus Feilner Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:09:04 +0000 To: kdepim-users Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Success with Kontact/4.8.2 Message-Id: <1375213.bk4i04SP6A () heisenberg> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdepim-users&m=133502467709270 Am Samstag, 21. April 2012, 15:03:08 schrieb Anne Wilson: > Determined to have a clean install on my netbook in time for my > holiday, I installed Mageia beta3. This was quickly updated to KDE > 4.8.2, including kdepim. Almost everything is working perfectly - almost, > in that I can't connect to my Google contacts, but that's not the end of > the world. > = > KMail is accessing both Googlemail and my own IMAP server, set up as a > Roaming profile for while I'm away. No long waits, nothing going missing > and all apparently working perfectly. > = > Calendar - I'm using my Google calendar - useful as it is on my phone > too. The new connection facility is unbelievably slick. Thanks for that! > = > :-) The only downside is that the calendar is rather slow to load. I had > = > just decided it must be broken when things started to appear. > = > Contacts - I copied all the vcards from my main laptop onto the > netbook. I seem to have lost the few cards that were in the top-level > Personal Contacts, but the folders below it are all there. The old > std.vcf also works fine. > = > Akregator appears to have picked up all my old feeds - copied in from > the older Fedora 14 install. I haven't had time to work with it, but it > looks fine, and notifications tell me that new feed entries are arriving. > = > All in all, this is a huge relief, as my main laptop went down this morni= ng > and looks totally dead :-( Still, at least this netbook, Mageia, and the > new Kontact are going to get me through. > = > Thanks to all > = > Anne > _______________________________________________ > KDE PIM users mailing list > Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-use= rs I can confirm that. Been using 4.8.2 on Suse Tumbleweed for a while, and al= most = all the things that annoyed me on Ubuntu and Mint are working here. Only th= ing = that's not (yet) working is autocompletion of mail adresses. Grmpfh! :-) -- = Best Regards - Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen, = Markus Feilner ------------------------- Feilner IT Linux & GIS Linux Solutions, Training, Seminare und Workshops - auch Inhouse K=F6tztinger Stra=DFe 6c 93057 Regensburg Telefon: +49 941 8 10 79 89 Mobil: +49 170 3 02 70 92 Mail: mfeilner@feilner-it.net Web: http://www.feilner-it.net - Google+: https://plus.google.com/105201437130417639658 Xing: http://www.xing.com/profile/Markus_Feilner Linux Magazine Germany: mfeilner@linux-magazin.de -------------------------------------- My books at Packt: Open source - privacy and connectivity for everyone! New and revised: http://www.packtpub.com/learning-openvpn-2-0-9/book Sold more than 5000 times: http://www.packtpub.com/openvpn/book My Groupware book: http://www.packtpub.com/scalix/book _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users