It's Saturday night. Time for a little grim humor.
I'm more than a little frustrated by the witless way this quite decent application is presented to us. It LOOKs great. I get good use out of the calendar functionality. I'd like to use the feedreader, but it loads duplicates of items, multiple times a day. Maybe I set it up wrong. But, how would I know, 'cause...
There's no blippin' documentation! Like too many other KDE programs, the Help menu contains dead links or links to forums which have modest participation and no answers for my problems. (And by the way - just how many forums can YOU track until you start to hear people talking to you in the dark? Heh heh.)
So, I'm left to flail around trying to get things to work on my own. After several weeks, I finally discovered how to get the Akonadi server working (I think), and now all my external data resources are internal to Akonadi, but it doesn't appear possible to ADD another calendar to the 3 I have already. This is simply crazy. There must be a way. But if they told you....well, that would be cheating, yes?
Does ANYONE know where some real documentation for this software might be found? It's not exactly a new kid on the block, but seems still to be living in the street. AND, why have a bloody Help>Kontact link that tells me that the file it's looking for doesn't exist? Since when is this good practice? And don't bother looking in the packages for a documentation file to load - there isn't one. (Another great idea: provide documentation in a file which doesn't load with the main program - I've seen that one far too many times.) There's always this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontact - which is at least interesting reading, if not really documentation.
Significantly frustrating...
So, why not turn a liability into an asset? This (and many other opensource programs should be presented to us something like this...
"Kontact - the PIM software for the man who never reads instructions. You'll feel right at home, 'cause there aren't any." Gals, of course, will have to get a guy to help them (preferably a guy with a lot of time).
This it's just me? Hardly. Read on - The big Linux Achilles: Documentation - http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/op...06&tag=nl.e550
I'm more than a little frustrated by the witless way this quite decent application is presented to us. It LOOKs great. I get good use out of the calendar functionality. I'd like to use the feedreader, but it loads duplicates of items, multiple times a day. Maybe I set it up wrong. But, how would I know, 'cause...
There's no blippin' documentation! Like too many other KDE programs, the Help menu contains dead links or links to forums which have modest participation and no answers for my problems. (And by the way - just how many forums can YOU track until you start to hear people talking to you in the dark? Heh heh.)
So, I'm left to flail around trying to get things to work on my own. After several weeks, I finally discovered how to get the Akonadi server working (I think), and now all my external data resources are internal to Akonadi, but it doesn't appear possible to ADD another calendar to the 3 I have already. This is simply crazy. There must be a way. But if they told you....well, that would be cheating, yes?
Does ANYONE know where some real documentation for this software might be found? It's not exactly a new kid on the block, but seems still to be living in the street. AND, why have a bloody Help>Kontact link that tells me that the file it's looking for doesn't exist? Since when is this good practice? And don't bother looking in the packages for a documentation file to load - there isn't one. (Another great idea: provide documentation in a file which doesn't load with the main program - I've seen that one far too many times.) There's always this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontact - which is at least interesting reading, if not really documentation.
Significantly frustrating...
So, why not turn a liability into an asset? This (and many other opensource programs should be presented to us something like this...
"Kontact - the PIM software for the man who never reads instructions. You'll feel right at home, 'cause there aren't any." Gals, of course, will have to get a guy to help them (preferably a guy with a lot of time).
This it's just me? Hardly. Read on - The big Linux Achilles: Documentation - http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/op...06&tag=nl.e550
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