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  KDE 3.5.9 Brings New Enterprise PIM
KDE Official News Posted by Sebastian Kuegler on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @07:49
from the rock-stable dept.
The KDE community is happy to announce another update for the KDE 3 branch. KDE 3.5.9 is the latest bugfix and translation update for those who cannot or do not want to switch to KDE 4 yet. While currently no subsequent release for KDE 3 is planned, we will make sure to provide updates as they are needed to run your KDE3 smoothly also in the future.

The KDE-PIM enterprise branch that has enhanced functionality and stability in the PIM components KMail, KOrganizer, KAddressbook, KAlarm and of course its shell Kontact is merged back as official part into the KDE3 branch. Techbase has details about the changes in KDE-PIM. Among those are:

  • A Favourite email folders view in KMail, as well as drag and drop support for folders
  • Easier scheduling in KOrganizer through various improvements in the user interface
  • Improvements in KAlarm and KAddressbook

Enjoy KDE 3.5.9!



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Thank You
by blendo on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @08:37
Thank you KDE Team for all your work. The new features of the KDE-PIM tools are very welcome.

cheers blendo

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Very good things
by m. on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @09:06
I am using svn version for last 2 weeks (prompted by Commit Digest) and they are really good improvements.

Thanks.

m.
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Changelog
by Pilaf on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @09:28
Is the changelog actually complete? I was expecting some fixes to kdelibs/kdebase. 3.5.8 introduced a rather subtle but annoying bug in Konqueror I was hoping this release would fix. No biggie anyway, I'll install it and cross my fingers.

Keep up the great work, KDE team!
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problems
by sandsmark on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @11:18
I've had several problems with the enterprise patches, and the biggest is that sending mail doesn't work. It doesn't print any error messages anywhere, and when I installed "plain" KMail instead, the messages got sent right away.
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About PIM
by Cypher on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @11:22
I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be better to have a monolitic Kontact instead of using different small applications. I find it weird to have different dock icons for each sub-application. Couldn't it be possible to integrate everything into one single app ? Moreover, having so many configuration dialogs is hard to manage.

I know that this architecture provides the ability to only use the sub-components alone if needed, but for those who are looking for a professional centralized application (Outlook-like to be rude), it can be disturbing.

Talking totally about something else, is it planned to integrate the Google Apps APIs into KDE-PIM ? It would be nice to support GCalendar out of the box for instance.

Kind regards
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weird
by anon on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @12:59
new enterprise PIM? So bascally everything that has been avaible with opensuse for a few months, it's not really new then is it
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Oh Good
by Rob Funk on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @13:08
I just upgraded my Kubuntu boxes last week and got KDE 3.5.8, which gave me at least two regressions -- a major kded bug (CPU-eater, though it seems to have bitten some people in earlier versions) and a minor (but damn annoying) konqueror bug (load-plugins-only-on-demand not working). Yes as I recall both of these are in the bug database.

I can't wait to get the 3.5.9 update and see if these are fixed.
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KDE-PIM and Facebook
by Santa Claus on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @13:20
Speaking of KDE-PIM. These days, living in an Uni environment where most clubs, societies, and friends have their own facebook page and use it to schedule events, it would be really nice to have some Facebook integration in Kontact.

I've heard about some akonadi facebook integration. Are those the first steps in that direction?
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The best ever
by Artem S. Tashkinov on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @21:32
KDE 3.5.9 still rocks!

I will be using it at least before KDE 4.1.0 is out.
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thank you
by thankfull on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @00:15
"we will make sure to provide updates as they are needed to run your KDE3 smoothly also in the future."

You guys rock. thank you for your work.
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Imap improvements?
by Joergen Ramskov on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @02:15
I've tried before to switch from Mozilla Thunderbird to Kontact/Kmail, but Kmails imap implementation work, just haven't worked for me. It seems it is time to try again after upgrading to KDE 3.5.9 :)
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KDE rules the skies
by love it on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @07:20
KDE is proof god never abandoned us, he just joined the KDE dev team.
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do not want to switch to KDE 4 yet
by YAC {Yet Another Critic} on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @22:48
I guess that I have a large disagreement about what the issue is here. I want to switch to KDE-4, but the KDE-4.0 BRANCH is still seriously broken and it appears that the bugs won't be fixed. We are back to the broken development model where bugs reported against the current 4.0.x release are considered fixed if they work in KDE-TRUNK, even if they specifically still exist in KDE-4.0 BRANCH.
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Merge of enterprise branch, features by Kolab-Team
by Bernhard Reiter on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @02:04
For completeness: 3.5.9 has a bunch of merges from the KDEPIM enterprise35 branch, which will be continued of course. The work for the new features was done by the Kolab-Konsortium members KDAB and Intevation. A big THANK YOU goes to our customers which basicially finance this development! They make it possible to have a number of professionals work on KDEPIM.
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