From kmail-devel Mon Apr 23 17:19:58 2001 From: Marc Mutz Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:19:58 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Re: Bug#24532: integration of kmail with knode X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=98804683730243 Don Sanders wrote: > > Personally I'm ok with the concept of merging KMail and KNode, but in my > opinion the merged application should be a new third application, the old > standalone applications should continue to be supported too, some people > prefer seperate tools. Basic newsgroup support in KMail would be very much welcomed from my side. News is indeed not much different from mail (the format is very similar) and now that kmail handles IMAP, even the difference 'email is stored locally, news on a server' is moot. A very uneducated guess from my side is that KNode and KMail share approx. 90% of the GUI, 50% of other code (PGP, transport, folder handling,...) and 80% of config options. From a code-reuse POV it's rediculous for them to be different applications, so they could as well be merged into a 'KMessenger'. Also, both apps could benefit from the merge: KMail's mailing list support could benefit from KNode in that both mailing lists and newsgroups are presented identically in the GUI (like making an 'unsubscribe' action for mailing lists that determines with a litte magic the ml sofware used and does the right thing). Just an example. KNode would benefit from the PR KMail generates. Anybody noticed how the traffic on this list is on par with that on kfm-devel for the last days? > > What I would like to see is a recognition that from a user perception > > news and mailing lists are pretty well the same concept and that when > > the majority of mail is of this form then there are strong arguments > > for bringing the software to manage these two activities into a single > > application. I agree whole-heartedly. Marc -- Marc Mutz http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/ University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH) _______________________________________________ Kmail Developers mailing list Kmail@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail