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List:       kroupware
Subject:    Re: [Kroupware] kroupware_branch
From:       Matthias Kalle Dalheimer <kalle () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2002-09-13 5:13:02
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 23.54, Richard Bos wrote:
> Hello Kalle,
>
> as kmail continues to be on your worklist, I'll give my thoughts about
> kmail a shot.  I only don't know if they are relevant to the kroupware
> project at the moment.  I use kmail at home, I've tried and try to use
> kmail at the office, but it lacks some functionality, let me list the 3
> show stoppers to use kmail in a corperate environment:
>
> - the threading in kmail is horrible, if one deletes a message the thread
> can be broken, the list is resorted and the user gets confused because the
> thread is not there anymore.  This is an old complaint (2-3 years?), but
> the current kmail developers state that the current threading implemention
> is
> (technically) correct/superiour.  Maybe so, but it is not
> (company|corperate) user friendly!!!
>
> - It's difficult change/edit recipients (to|cc|bcc).  They are all place at
> one huge line and one has to use the arrow keys "->", "<-" to navigate
> through this list of recipients.  The more convenient solution is the way
> netscape 4(.7), mozilla are doing it, with were the recipients are being
> listed in box, from where they can be removed or added.
>
> - It's difficult to include a message as an attachment.  A email now needs
> to be saved and can than be included as an attachment to the mail.  Not a
> nice if one wants to attach a lot of emails to 1 message.  This should be
> possible with a drag and drop action.
>
> Hopefully it's possible for your team including the kmailers to do
> something about the above those corperate showstoppers??
>
> Op donderdag 12 september 2002 22:40, schreef Matthias Kalle Dalheimer:
> > in order to reduce the strain on cvs.kde.org, I have removed (or am still
> > doing so) the kroupware_branch everywhere where we are not actively
> > working on stuff.
> >
> > I will only leave the kroupware_branch in the following directories:
> >
> > kdenetwork/kmail

We need to tackle the first one anyway for offline IMAP support. I mostly 
agree about the other ones, but these are beyond the scope of the Kroupware 
project, so will have to wait for a later time.

Kalle

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Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
President&CEO/VD
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
Platform-independent software solutions

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