Alternative PIM?

[D. R. Evans]

Valter Mura said the following at 11/17/2012 10:02 AM :
> In data venerdì 16 novembre 2012 14:34:03, D. R. Evans ha scritto:
>> 1. All my calendars and contact information are in standard-format ICS and
>> VCF files.
>>
>> 2. I am pretty much at the point of despair with everything akonadi-related.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend any good personal information management programs 
> that
>> aren't as fragile as the standard kde-pim package?
> 
> Hi Doc
> 
> I'm using Kontact, but I'm about to use TB with Gmail (as you are) Imap. 

You are fortunate that kontact is usable at all. Here:

1. I get pop-pup errors every few minutes (usually with an error message about
files being uploaded, which makes no sense since it shouldn't be uploading
anything anywhere; sometimes it just says "unknown error");

2. My remote calendars frequently don't appear at all (and cannot be forced to
appear); but occasionally when I start kontact, they *do* appear; there is no
obvious pattern to the different behaviour;

3. There is much basic functionality missing in the addressbook;

4. To top it off, akonadi can bring my entire machine to a standstill with its
intense disk activity.

All this happens even after I wiped everything and started with a pristine
akonadi installation a couple of days ago.

Everything worked fine until I updated to 12.10; until the update I never
understood all the complaints I kept reading about the KDE PIM suite and
akonadi. Now I understand: it's basically a horribly fragile architecture:
great as long as it works, but as soon as akonadi decides to fail, everything
breaks and there's no obvious way to recover.

> Everthing could be syncronized with the Gmail account without problems (mail, 
> calendar, contacts...)

I don't like the idea of google knowing anything more than necessary about me,
so I'm looking at other PIMs. Perhaps evolution is usable... I'm downloading
it now.

  Doc

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