I finally took the leap, and let kmail2 chew some real mail and accounts. Here's a few observations for those interested in testing.
New kdepim packages are still in kubuntu-experimental ppa (and not in the main repos), but I wanted to hop in relatively early since I understand the new kdepim will be in the oneiric release. I wanted to jump to testing it since I'll eventually have to switch anyway.
Pros:
- Haven't noticed any major problems in stability, performance or resource usage (all seem on par with old kdepim...or better)
- Hasn't eaten up mail or other pim data
- Akonadi is starting to grow on me (I always thought akonadi had excellent potential, but that comes more evident as more applications use it)...still don't use nepomuk or strigi, but that's beyond the scope of this post :P
- Supports the new plasma statusnotifier icons
Cons (all relatively minor annoyances):
- The resource migration from the old kdepim wasn't 100% smooth, although all issues were quickly fixed (once I found the problem). The problems could be related to the fact that I have quite a few accounts, and simultaneously migrated the few remaining pop accounts to imap.
- The message count overlays in kmail/akregator tray icons don't seem to work with plasma statusnotifier svg icons (I probably should file a bug report for that, since I suspect I am one of the few people that currently uses plasma svgs for tray icons with the new kmail/akregator)
- Haven't found a way to disable notifications for "nepomuk indexing disabled" (which I get since I don't use nepomuk).
- Have to use kwallet for storing account passwords (of course the upside is that it is more secure than storing them in the config)
- The "favorite folders" pane in kmail needs a bit more work (I'd like it to be more configurable in the way it presents the folders).
I also started to use one of my imap accounts to store my PIM data (contacts, calendar, tasks etc.) for easy and automatic syncing between machines and I was surprised how easy it was to set up an akonadi kolab resource to get to that data. The data found it's way to kaddressbook (contacts) and korganizer (calendar/tasks) and syncs between machines beautifully.
Of course I could also use googledata for that, but I previously had a few problems with the googledata resource (and I really don't wish to share my personal pim data with google :P).
New kdepim packages are still in kubuntu-experimental ppa (and not in the main repos), but I wanted to hop in relatively early since I understand the new kdepim will be in the oneiric release. I wanted to jump to testing it since I'll eventually have to switch anyway.
Pros:
- Haven't noticed any major problems in stability, performance or resource usage (all seem on par with old kdepim...or better)
- Hasn't eaten up mail or other pim data
- Akonadi is starting to grow on me (I always thought akonadi had excellent potential, but that comes more evident as more applications use it)...still don't use nepomuk or strigi, but that's beyond the scope of this post :P
- Supports the new plasma statusnotifier icons
Cons (all relatively minor annoyances):
- The resource migration from the old kdepim wasn't 100% smooth, although all issues were quickly fixed (once I found the problem). The problems could be related to the fact that I have quite a few accounts, and simultaneously migrated the few remaining pop accounts to imap.
- The message count overlays in kmail/akregator tray icons don't seem to work with plasma statusnotifier svg icons (I probably should file a bug report for that, since I suspect I am one of the few people that currently uses plasma svgs for tray icons with the new kmail/akregator)
- Haven't found a way to disable notifications for "nepomuk indexing disabled" (which I get since I don't use nepomuk).
- Have to use kwallet for storing account passwords (of course the upside is that it is more secure than storing them in the config)
- The "favorite folders" pane in kmail needs a bit more work (I'd like it to be more configurable in the way it presents the folders).
I also started to use one of my imap accounts to store my PIM data (contacts, calendar, tasks etc.) for easy and automatic syncing between machines and I was surprised how easy it was to set up an akonadi kolab resource to get to that data. The data found it's way to kaddressbook (contacts) and korganizer (calendar/tasks) and syncs between machines beautifully.
Of course I could also use googledata for that, but I previously had a few problems with the googledata resource (and I really don't wish to share my personal pim data with google :P).
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