[wplug] kontact

[Rob Knapp]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 19:55 -0400, Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
> Hey Everybody,
> 
> This weekend I got a new hard drive and installed FreeBSD from scratch.  From 
> there, I did something I've never done before, for whatever reason.  I used 
> kontact, and I have to say I was impressed.

Kontact also has an "exchange replacement" server called Kolab that
interoperates with Outlook, and several other groupware suites. [It even
has a thunderbird extension that lets you share calendars with non-
mozilla users.]

I've gotten it to build on debian (which I use at home), but not on
NetBSD, which I use for work.  (The build is very much geared towards
linux and freebsd.)

At anyrate, for people looking for a cross-platform exchange
replacement, it may be worth a look.  I was quite pleased with the most
recent release (2.0-rc3).

> 
> Kontact is the KDE integrated PIM.  Its got a calendar (kalendar), kmail, todo 
> functionality, notes, etc.  I used Outlook for a couple of weeks 5 years ago.  
> There probably are some similarities between kontact and outlook, but I don't 
> know.  It doesn't feel like a rip off of anything.  Probably has a lot of the 
> same features as Evolution, but for me, it always seemed like their were 
> problems with Evolution.  Nothing I can put my finger on, it just never got 
> me hooked.
> 
> For a while, I have been using Thunderbird / Sunbird as my email and calendar 
> combo.  I think kontact blows them away.  To me, kontact had better filtering 
> capabilities (sort by list ID, rather than just To or Cc or From).  The 
> calendar works great.  I've used it pretty heavilly for two days and haven't 
> seen any real bugs (try saying that about Sunbird).  
> 
> So thats it.  All I'm saying is if you're not 100% satisfied with your current 
> personal information manager, give kontact a try.  The KDE programs always 
> seemed like bastard children to me (KDE's a desktop environment not a browser 
> or mail program, right?)  But I have new respect for the KDE krew.  
> 
> Hope you had a nice weekend,
> 
> Mike
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