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Torangan
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 Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:17 pm Post subject: Replacing KMail |
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Hello,
like so many other, I'm fed up with those semantic desktop stuff forced into KMail in recent versions. It doesn't work well and I don't want to spend time getting it to work as I have no intention at all to use those features. On the other hand, I was very happy with kmail. I don't need much, just basic sorting and non intrusive notifications in the system tray get me happy.
So the question is, can someone recommend good replacements for KMail and Kopete (multiple networks) that provide those features? Bonus points for tools which do not have lots of extra functionality but instead a small ressource usage. I really need to remove a few packages and then do an emerge -DN world with USE=-semantic-desktop. |
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s_bernstein
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Location: Bremen, Germany
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:16 am Post subject: |
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I was there a few month before and I decided to swith to thunderbird with lightning and some addons:
* AddressBookTab 1.4.1
* Allow HTML Temp 3.2.3
* Attachment Sizes 0.0.9
* ConfirmFolderMove 1.1.1
* Enigmail 1.1.2
* FireTray 0.2.8
* Folder Account 3.1
* Funambol Mozilla Sync Client 1.0b4
* Lightning 1.0b3pre
* Manually Sort Folders 0.6.6
* MoreFunctionsForAddressBook 0.6.3.1
* MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.4
* Quote Colors 0.3
* ThunderBirthDay 0.3.4
* Timezone Definitions for Mozilla Calendar 1.2011b
And now I'm very happy with it. Also thunderbird starts in a few seconds while kmail2 needed almost a minute to start because of all the akonadi, soprano, semantic desktop nonsense. |
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ppurka
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:28 am Post subject: Re: Replacing KMail |
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| Torangan wrote: | | I don't need much, just basic sorting and non intrusive notifications in the system tray get me happy. |
As s_bernstein mentioned, thunderbird will fit your needs. Basic sorting and some more is present in thunderbird. Some very advanced sorting and presentation that is present in kmail is not present though in thunderbird (at least without external plugins).
Thunderbird itself gives some notifications. However, if you want a little more customization, then I recommend 'gnome integration 0.4.1'.
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Yamakuzure
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Location: Adendorf, Germany
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Strange... I originally switched from Thunderbird (with _less_ Addons than the list mentioned above) to kmail because TB was such a slow resource hog. Ate tons of memory, CPU usage was abysmal, starting up and the general workflow was slowly snailing away...
But now there are Thunderbird 3 and kmail2. So it might be vice versa nowadays? hmm...
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Torangan
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Yeah, looks I'll take thunderbird. Not the smallest one but at least a well supported tool.
I'm a long time KDE user, I was using CVS snapshots before they had a first official beta version but recently... I'm starting to dislike it. Just about every update it's trying to force something on me I don't want. I'll just have to replace Kopete as well and then try wheter it helps if I recompile without semantic desktop nonsense. As long as that is supported at all and not completely core part... |
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