Sebastian Kügler has a very informative essay, covering lots of good stuff about Akonadi.
KDE in General
I’m very glad to see this sort of thing, for I have long lamented that KDE is not getting out good information on all the advances they are making.
I’ve been on KDE 4.5 on my laptop since it was released, and just updated to 4.5 on my desktop last night. With only one issue[1], I’ve been very pleased with what I’ve seen. KDE continues to firm up as an integrated whole that have an over-arching sense of continuity, and the level of polish is very high.
People that are still knocking KDE 4 or are hestant to try it based on what they have heard need to give KDE another chance.
Explaining Stuff
For reasons I don’t fully understand, KDE faces a PR problem. When compared to a project like Ubuntu, where the slightest change is fawned over by a hundred blogs, KDE seems to have a very hard time getting the word out.
Mr. Kügler does a great job breaking down Akonadi, clearing up some misconceptions, and showing how it will be used across many KDE applications. Even though I am not a KMail user, I found myself quite interested in that application, as it served as the primary example throught the article.
I’m also especially liking the new plasma email notifier:
I hope this style propagates, because I prefer the fully enclosed bits of information here in contrast to the “faded out folder tabs” of the existing style.
Keep Doing This, Please
Someone please break down NEPOMUK like this - I still don’t understand what that is all about.
[1]KWin keeps locking up on my laptop if compositing is enabled. This is slightly different from the KWin issues I’ve read others are having, so I disabled effects for now until I can delve deeper.
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