Re: The future of KAddressBook

On Thursday 11 March 2010, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2010, Ingo Klöcker elucidated thus:
> > On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> > > On Sunday 07 March 2010, Ingo Klöcker elucidated thus:
> > > > On Sunday 07 March 2010, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> > > > > On Monday 01 March 2010, Anne Wilson elucidated thus:
> > > > > > For those of you concerned about the apparent loss of view
> > > > > > of some fields, and any other aspect regarding the status
> > > > > > of KAddressBook,
> > > > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222678 should answer
> > > > > > many of your questions.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks for posting this. Yet more reasons for me to stick
> > > > > with KDE 3.5.11 on Kubuntu 9.10 for now.  See
> > > > > http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/ for more information.
> > > > 
> > > > You could as well go for KDE SC 4.3. OTOH, if KDE SC 3.5 serves
> > > > you well then there's no reason to switch. I have used 3.5
> > > > until about 2 months ago. Now I'm using 4.4. So far I haven't
> > > > found anything in KDE SC 4 which made the switch worthwhile
> > > > for me, but since for me everything works as good as in 4.4 as
> > > > it used to work in 3.5 I will stay with 4.4. Of course,
> > > > everybody else's mileage will vary.
> > > > 
> > > > I encourage everybody to stay with the version they are
> > > > currently using unless there are extremely compelling reasons
> > > > that make a switch necessary. Never change a running system!
> > > 
> > > Ideally, this would be good.  However, users often want the
> > > latest in other areas (like driver support) which are not
> > > back-ported to an old distribution, thus an upgrade of KDE is
> > > "forced" on them if they want their latest-and-greatest hardware
> > > to be supported.
> > 
> > This really depends on the distribution. Also, if you upgrade the
> > whole distribution then you should be relatively safe as I expect a
> > whole distribution to be tested thoroughly before it is released.
> > In contrast, the KDE SC 4.4 upgrade which all major distributions
> > offer for distributions that originally shipped with an older
> > version of KDE SC cannot have been tested thoroughly given that
> > those upgrades were offered almost immediately after the official
> > release of KDE SC.
> 
> This is true. However, even if you go with a "well test" version of
> KDE SC, you'd still hit the issue that started this thread: loss of
> functionality in an established program.

True. But that's life. Life is change. Stagnation is death. :-)

At least, KAddressBook still exists. And the loss of functionality is 
just temporary. There are a lot of "established" apps that are in a much 
worse situation. Lots of nice KDE 3 apps still didn't make the step to 
KDE 4 and a lot of those probably never will.


Regards,
Ingo

_______________________________________________
KDE PIM users mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEABECAAYFAkuZUEoACgkQGnR+RTDgudjiYQCgmfcY/Z5joN7TJdk8tgX7I6gk
1rgAoLsbhHAkWCkCP0rWhyQBYKi9qmUY
=2rnw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----