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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#24532: integration of kmail with knode
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-04-23 17:19:58
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Don Sanders wrote:
> 
<snip> 
> 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.
<snip> 

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?


<snip>
> > 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.
<snip>

I agree whole-heartedly.

Marc

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University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics

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