KDE 3.3 Release to Coincide with KDE Community World Summit

What an exciting KDE summer! Release dude Coolo is planning the KDE 3.3 release for just 3 days before "aKademy" starts: The release plan was published on Saturday for discussion! Developers should make sure to get the stuff listed they plan to have ready for 3.3 in the planned-features document as soon as possible. KDE 3.3 Alpha is prepared around May 23rd and June 1st will see the first freeze (excluding outstanding listed features and i18n strings) kicking in.

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by David (not verified)

KDE PIM already has groupworking parts, and I believe it has interactivity with Exchange.

by thesimplefix (not verified)

I would like to see the newly GPL-ed 'Connector for MS Exchange Server' offered by Novell integrated into Kontact by Default. This would be sweet!

The source can be downloaded from:

http://ftp.ximian.com/pub/source/evolution/ximian-connector-1.4.7.tar.gz

by David (not verified)

See above. Kontact and KDEPIM already have groupworking and Exchange options.

by theboywho (not verified)

I know that korganiser had an Exchange plugin, but a similar technology for KMail - so that it can talk to Exchange 2000-2003 servers in their native protocol rather than using IMAP.

by Bob (not verified)

I agree. Kmail should be enterprise ready. That includes allowing users to connect to enterprise groupware servers using their native protocol. I don't like it any more than anyone else, but Exchange has a huge market share and shouldn't be over-looked. IMAP is a work-around but not a real solid one. Anyone who has had to support an Exchange server with many different clients using IMAP (myself) should agree that Exchange (2000) doesn't not handle IMAP very well. We have had a few corrupt mailboxes because Exchange choked when an irregular message was retrived via IMAP. The native protocol does not have this problem. Also, true calendar/out-of-office integration is demanded by our business model. Intergrating with Exchange may be troublesome, but if done right, would pay huge dividends in making the KDE desktop truly enterprise ready.

by Zack Cerza (not verified)

I know, I know, I should just file a wishlist bug. I'm whining instead.
The one and only thing I've been missing since I defected from GNOME a while back is the panel drawer. I really hope a kicker developer feels the same way and eventually clones it. If not... I'll get around to learning Qt eventually.

by Anders Jansson (not verified)

I't would be greate if you added a standard applet that shows the speed and etc for the network like in windows 2000 and XP, I think gnome has one of those applets.

Keep up the good work!