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Calendar support is actually a desirable feature for me. I'm sad to find that there's nothing fully outlook-compatible in the open source world. Evolution gets

Calendar support is actually a desirable feature for me. I'm sad to find that there's nothing fully outlook-compatible in the open source world. Evolution gets very very close, but it still lacks support for viewing/changing some of the meeting data, and I believe background colour for meetings (which I miss a lot).

still_grokking 5y ago
Ever tried Kontact? I'm using it as daily driver and wouldn't switch to webmail nor Thunderbird or Evolution.
- selfhoster11 5y ago
  I think I tried it (for non-Exchange calendaring), but I didn't like it for some reason. As far as Evolution goes, I don't see myself moving away from it for now. I can't afford to have reminders not showing up, or have my calendar not syncing for half a business day because something has gone wrong. Evolution is the only program that I've tried that gets both of these right, and I've tried many, many applications both native and Electron-based. Don't get me wrong, I'd switch in a heartbeat if I discovered a superior solution. But as-is, the few issues are found, aren't enough of a motivation to switch. A few cosmetic/UX glitches and nice-to-have missing features (highlighting background entries with their category's colour, busy/free/out-of-office setting on meetings) are tolerable when the alternatives are so, SO much worse.
  - still_grokking 5y ago
    To be fair Kontact (KMail) had its bad days. The whole Akonadi stuff underneath got a really bad reputation because of that. And that was for a reason, for sure! But those issues are solved today (and since a long time by now). I don't know whether Kontact could be considered substantially better than Evolution. But it works fine and has a lot of features not found elsewhere. It's also quite focused on power-users I would say. For example you have configurable one-keystroke commands for all important functionality (and being a KDE application you can configure shortcuts for actually every action if you like to). It handles big inboxes in different accounts (being capable of showing an unified inbox if desired) and independently of that multiple identities. The calendar and mail components handle Exchange idiosyncrasies. The GPG stuff just works. For people looking for a true Outlook alternative on Linux it's at least one of the things worth trying. That's why I've mentioned it.
dijit 5y ago
I think that the Apple way of separating calendar and mail is desirable honestly. Calendar invitations are .ics files that any calendar client can consume, it’s a different remote protocol underneath too (caldav)

still_grokking 5y ago

Ever tried Kontact? I'm using it as daily driver and wouldn't switch to webmail nor Thunderbird or Evolution.

selfhoster11 5y ago
I think I tried it (for non-Exchange calendaring), but I didn't like it for some reason. As far as Evolution goes, I don't see myself moving away from it for now. I can't afford to have reminders not showing up, or have my calendar not syncing for half a business day because something has gone wrong. Evolution is the only program that I've tried that gets both of these right, and I've tried many, many applications both native and Electron-based. Don't get me wrong, I'd switch in a heartbeat if I discovered a superior solution. But as-is, the few issues are found, aren't enough of a motivation to switch. A few cosmetic/UX glitches and nice-to-have missing features (highlighting background entries with their category's colour, busy/free/out-of-office setting on meetings) are tolerable when the alternatives are so, SO much worse.
- still_grokking 5y ago
  To be fair Kontact (KMail) had its bad days. The whole Akonadi stuff underneath got a really bad reputation because of that. And that was for a reason, for sure! But those issues are solved today (and since a long time by now). I don't know whether Kontact could be considered substantially better than Evolution. But it works fine and has a lot of features not found elsewhere. It's also quite focused on power-users I would say. For example you have configurable one-keystroke commands for all important functionality (and being a KDE application you can configure shortcuts for actually every action if you like to). It handles big inboxes in different accounts (being capable of showing an unified inbox if desired) and independently of that multiple identities. The calendar and mail components handle Exchange idiosyncrasies. The GPG stuff just works. For people looking for a true Outlook alternative on Linux it's at least one of the things worth trying. That's why I've mentioned it.

dijit 5y ago

I think that the Apple way of separating calendar and mail is desirable honestly. Calendar invitations are .ics files that any calendar client can consume, it’s a different remote protocol underneath too (caldav)