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by Parminder Ramesh on Thursday 22/May/2008, @03:54

Welcome back Danny, it's great to hear from you again :)

I must say I am very impressed with the professional look of Kontact at the moment - for a while I had to reluctantly agree that Evolution was a better choice. But now, with a beautiful design and hopefully with MS Exchange support thru Akonadi in 4.2/.3/.4, it should be the best free email program around. One other feature I hope gets implemented is the Outlook 2003/7 three column style, where the message is beside the list of emails, and not below it. But this is a minor niggle, so it matters little.

Also excited about improvements to Plasma, the "Incredible Machine"-like game in development, the work to add a KWin cube, and a million other projects from Akonadi to Phonon. KDE development has never been more interesting!

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Re: Kontact
by SMB on Thursday 22/May/2008, @07:44

Do I really have to wait for 4.2 for Kontact to support Exchange? That makes me a sad panda :(

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Re: Kontact
by nik on Thursday 22/May/2008, @07:53

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One other feature I hope gets implemented is the Outlook 2003/7 three column style, where the message is beside the list of emails, and not below it.
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Do you mean something like this?

Menu:
Settings
-> Configure KMail
-> Appearance
-> Layout
-> Message Preview Pane
-> Show the message preview pane next to the message list

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Re: Kontact
by Parminder Ramesh on Thursday 22/May/2008, @15:05

Sounds like it! Thanks so much for pointing it out! :)

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