Replacing Evolution With Kontact
Oct 7th, 2007 by Don Ray
I have spent a couple days moving from the Gnome Evolution product (containing email, calender, etc.) to KDE Kontact. I want to give KDE a chance to be my desktop manager. I have to admit I like the “Summary” display on Kontact. It replaces everything that Outlook used to do for me. It looks like Kontact is going to be a “GO”.
I see a lot of people writing that they prefer Thunderbird, but I really want something more similar to Outlook, which I used for many years.
Don Ray,
I’ve used Evolution so long that I’m personally not interested in changing. Best wishes with Kontact and please keep us informed.
Hi Tuxi. I understand your feeling that way. I didn’t like the fact that Evolution did not support LDAP for importing and exporting. Migrating from Evolution was not easy. If there is an easy way, I didn’t find it.
However, Kontact does support LDAP and therefore makes it easier to export its directory to other platforms. Maybe Evolution will see the light one of these days. You would think that Novell would make that a “to do” item.
I have an LDAP servers tab in my version of Evolutiion. It appears that you’d have to set up an LDAP server on localhost to use it locally.
Interesting. With that , does it allow you to export in the LDAP format?
Don Ray,
I didn’t see any export options for calendars in Evolution. I’m trying out Kontact at the moment and am replying from Akregator within Kontact!
Kontact does look to be a good program (bucket for programs).
Yes, I liked the Akregator in Kontact. Everything all in one location.
Just curious, Don Ray. Why are you moving from Evolution? It works just fine with KDE.
Henry
To be honest, I liked the KDE layout better. I liked the summary display and I liked the integration with Akregator. I am going to keep them both available, but I plan on using Kontact as primary to see if there is anything I don’t like.
I have liked all the task scheduling features better on Kontact to this point.
“I liked the KDE layout better”
I can’t think of a better reason to use it. Ain’t it wonderful, the free choices you have with Linux?
Henry
I can’t agree more. Sort of like “try it before you buy it” except that it is free.