JUN
10
2011
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New Kontact Suite Brings Next-Gen Groupware to Desktop and Mobile
![]() June 10, 2011. KDE is proud to announce the release of the next generation Kontact Suite, based on the Akonadi framework. In addition to this, we are also proud to announce the June maintenance update of the KDE Software Compilation 4.6. Unsurprisingly, the port of Kontact to Akonadi is finally being released the same day as Duke Nukem Forever, making it relatively timely. Known Kontact Receives More Powerful Foundation
KDE’s Kontact Suite – a set of Personal Information Management applications – is receiving a major architectural boost. The team has invested years of development in its new infrastructure layer, Akonadi, and in porting Kontact to the new foundation while keeping the familiar user experience.
Users who upgrade to the new Kontact Suite version will still recognise the applications. While the underlying internals have been updated, changes in the user interface have been kept to a minimum. Among the most noticable improvements are faster email notifications, vastly improved performance for IMAP email accounts, and interoperability with other applications that consume contacts, calendars and other groupware-related information. A wide variety of groupware servers are already supported natively by Akonadi, such as the Kolab groupware, and backwards-compatibility with existing groupware servers is guaranteed through a bridge solution allowing legacy KDE PIM resources to be used by Akonadi. Kontact Touch: Highly Secure Email and Groupware for MobilesKontact Touch brings the powerful Kontact groupware client to mobile devices too. Kontact Touch (screenshots) provides a similar featureset to the desktop also on mobile devices, including email, calendaring, and address book. Kontact Touch makes on-the-move reading and writing of signed and encrypted emails as easy as possible, supporting multiple cryptographic technologies such as OpenPGP and S/MIME. Kontact Touch provides off-line support for all data, and access to the full set of PIM resources known from the desktop client. More information about Kontact Touch can be found in this article. Kontact Touch Demo Video (Download in Ogg Theora format ) KDE SC Updates to 4.6.4
Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. |
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Video in konqueror?
Does the video appear for those of you that still use Konqueror with KHTML?
Yep
For me neither. I'm doing a recode to Theora which I'll add to the page shortly.
Should be working now...
In KHTML, embedded if you have Flash and there's a direct link to the Theora version too.
copy/pasto
here's the proper changelog link:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_6_3to4_6_4.php
Fixed
Thanks :-)
Kubuntu packages
Great to hear that Kdepim 4.6 has finally gone gold! Thanks to all the Devs for their hard work!
Does anyone know when there will be packages available for Kubuntu? There's currently version 4.5.96 in their experimental PPA...
Kmail + Akonadi
Is akonadi trying to kill my hard disk ?
Wow
Wow, Kontact touch looks really neat! Time to get my touchscreen fixed :) A BIG thank you and congratulations to all and any devs involved.
I would add that it looks
I would add that it looks much nicer than the desktop counterpart (which seems to be more and more the case)
Kontact
Is Kontact and all the KDEPIM stuff translated? I have installed it, on Gentoo wuth the correct USE flag for my language, but it is still in the "language of the empire"... >_< Perhaps I have made some mistake or KDEPIM simply isn't translated?
Salve.
Congratulations.
Everyone, congratulations for this solid release.
I hope Akonadi gets universal recognition, and I want to see Evolution and Elementary supporting and using Akonadi.
For me (arch linux testing
For me (arch linux testing packages) it is partly translated. The Application chooser in Kontact on the left and the Configuration Dialog selection parts are translated, the rest isn't :). Strangely the git-version was always translated.
So probably a packaging issue.
Thanks
Thanks for your hint, I hadn't noticed that. It happens the same happens to me (the previous poster): the left panel is translated and also parts of the dialogs. I will keep on with Evolution till KDEPIM is really finished.
Now working on arch
I suspected right ;). Translation packages got updated yesterday and everything is fine now.
Party time!
Wow. Thanks for all your long, hard work on this KDE PIM developers. I know it's been a long slog. Rewriting so many underlying parts may not be understood by many users, but I'm totally excited for the future of Kontact. I'm looking forward to using it on mobile and to savouring the delicious speed increases to IMAP. Once I wrap my head around how ssending / recieving encrypted mail actually works (tutorial, anyone?) I'll be jumping in with both feet there, too. So much goodness to go around! You all deserve to sit back, give yourselves a huge congratulation and know that it's all appreciated! Would love to know if there's any Gmail style conversation (no just threaded) view on the horizon, but that's for another day. For now I just want to say THANKYOU and congratulations! You rock!
Made in QML?
I have impression that it's made in QML/Qt, which doesn't need a lot of time to make this kind of transitions and this kind of UI :P
Nice job...
Impressed with Akonadi Integration!
After being disappointed with previous releases, I can thoroughly say that Akonadi integration with Kmail, Kaddressbook and calendar work seemingly well together and is actually very practical. I've been a long time user of internet email clients but the lack consistency between contacts, emails and calendars has been poor.Usability of organising data is still dreadfully time consuming and along with the constant manual polling has been a significant time waster. So a big thumbs up guys!
The GUI for Kmail is sufficient in the functionality but in terms of usability the main interface needs to be simpler (reducing the number elements) andthe consistency between elements (e.g. alignment) needs to be improved. However, I expect this will come with the help from a usability study?
The only thing so far that needs more work is Nepomuk integration, but again I expect this will be improved in the next major release.
Just like to give a big thankyou for the hard work and effort put into such a major porting effort!
Luke Parry
Kontact2 has Nepomuk
Kontact2 has Nepomuk integration in the following forms:
1. E-mail indexing by Strigi. You can search through all your mail, using KRunner.
2. The "Create pending task" button.
3. The "Add note" option for every mail. You have the option to annotate every mail; the annotation gets saved in Nepomuk.
The Nepomuk integration should increase, however.
Groupware
And groupware allow to easily share contacts and calendar with your family in your network ?
It's normally the job of a groupware... isn't it ?
Groupware support
From the article: "A wide variety of groupware servers are already supported natively by Akonadi, such as the Kolab groupware,..."
Again, the most important feature is missing ;)
Kontact2 brings us many niceties, but there's one of them that got ignored: the MAPI (Microsoft Exchange/Outlook) support, coming with the OpenXChange Akonadi resource. Yes, it was a novelty announced with KDE PIM 4.5, but you know what happened to that.
Thank you!
You are wonderful! Thank you for getting Kontact up to shape for the release and punching through the hardships!
Now I can finally stop compiling kdepim from live sources (and stop being afraid that something might break in the process).
Many, many thanks!