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Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Success with Kontact/4.8.2
From: Markus Feilner <lists () feilner-it ! net>
Date: 2012-04-21 16:09:04
Message-ID: 1375213.bk4i04SP6A () heisenberg
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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
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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! :-)
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Best Regards - Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen, =
Markus Feilner
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