#kontact — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kontact, aggregated by home.social.
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I am a long-term #KDEPIM user and recently read that due to progress in #SQLite’s performance #Akonadi is now defaulting to that DB on a fresh install.
A few days ago I took the chance and ran `akonadi-db-migrator --newengine sqlite` and it was both painless and I definitely see both lower resource consumption and the PIM suite seems much snappier too!
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I am a long-term #KDEPIM user and recently read that due to progress in #SQLite’s performance #Akonadi is now defaulting to that DB on a fresh install.
A few days ago I took the chance and ran `akonadi-db-migrator --newengine sqlite` and it was both painless and I definitely see both lower resource consumption and the PIM suite seems much snappier too!
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I am a long-term #KDEPIM user and recently read that due to progress in #SQLite’s performance #Akonadi is now defaulting to that DB on a fresh install.
A few days ago I took the chance and ran `akonadi-db-migrator --newengine sqlite` and it was both painless and I definitely see both lower resource consumption and the PIM suite seems much snappier too!
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I am a long-term #KDEPIM user and recently read that due to progress in #SQLite’s performance #Akonadi is now defaulting to that DB on a fresh install.
A few days ago I took the chance and ran `akonadi-db-migrator --newengine sqlite` and it was both painless and I definitely see both lower resource consumption and the PIM suite seems much snappier too!
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I am a long-term #KDEPIM user and recently read that due to progress in #SQLite’s performance #Akonadi is now defaulting to that DB on a fresh install.
A few days ago I took the chance and ran `akonadi-db-migrator --newengine sqlite` and it was both painless and I definitely see both lower resource consumption and the PIM suite seems much snappier too!
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Ok... So... to "fix" #Kontact 25.x, go get the Akonadi, Kmail, etc folders from an old version (in .local and .config). It may work to run an outdated #Linux install, cause Kontact to make database files, and use those.
On the target machine, remove Kontact, MariaDB and Akonadi entirely. Copy the old databases where they go. Install Kontact. Reboot.I haven't yet put my passwords back to see it actually fetch, but it's open and displaying old mail.
I have no idea why the fuck this worked.
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Sense is not being made today. Both my big laptop and my little laptop are running #Manjaro #Linux with #KDE and #Kontact. Big laptop is an old install that's been updated, little laptop was recently reformatted. Little laptop has Akonadi failures, big laptop works fine. I guess I'll have to sit and scruitinize what's different between them.
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#NixOS on asennettu ja sen deklaratiivista paketinhallintaa opiskeltu sen verran, että saatiin perusasennukseen muutama tarpeellinen ohjelma lisää. (Ad hoc -paketinhallintaa osasinkin jo käyttää.) Pieniä ongelmia on edessä:
– asentamalla #Kontact'in saa tasan ja vain Kontactin eli tyhjän kehyksen, josta puuttuvat osaohjelmat; mitään tapaa asentaa järkevää kokonaisuutta en tiedä
– #Zsh:n asensin mutta miten saada se oletuskomentotulkiksi 1/2 #atkjuttuja #linux #floss -
Messing around with email clients as I do once in a while; I'm expecting Mozilla to start forcing AI slop into Thunderbird any day now. Hopefully I'm wrong.
Why can't Evolution or Kontact import Thunderbird settings? Seems like this would be an obvious feature.
(Kontact apparently needs one? or two? other programs to do any kind of import, and the Flatpak version doesn't include it/them, which seems like an oversight).
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@popey #akregator from the @kde #kontact suite. Cannot live without it.
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The @opensuse Leap 16 installer is a web browser. Think that‘s got some enterprise reasons, but it‘s really not what I like.
Installed #KDE to test #Kontact once again: As soon as I open the tasks sub-app it crashes…
Staying with #Evolution. It‘s slow, but it works.
Working and not slow: 2Do.app, BusyCal - on the Mac.
It‘s got reasons why people don‘t use Linux for work.
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#KDE has long had a technology called #KParts. Basically you can set up something (including a full app) as a #KPart component and use it elsewhere as part of another (tools bars and menus will merge).
My understanding is that #Kate & #KWrite are a good example. Both now use the same editor component, but Kate adds a LOT of extra functionality to it. The #KDEPIM suite uses the same trick with it's components - they can run separately or as one combined app (#Kontact).
I'm not fully across the technology, so if any experts wish to correct me, feel free. 🤠
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#KDE has long had a technology called #KParts. Basically you can set up something (including a full app) as a #KPart component and use it elsewhere as part of another (tools bars and menus will merge).
My understanding is that #Kate & #KWrite are a good example. Both now use the same editor component, but Kate adds a LOT of extra functionality to it. The #KDEPIM suite uses the same trick with it's components - they can run separately or as one combined app (#Kontact).
I'm not fully across the technology, so if any experts wish to correct me, feel free. 🤠
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#KDE has long had a technology called #KParts. Basically you can set up something (including a full app) as a #KPart component and use it elsewhere as part of another (tools bars and menus will merge).
My understanding is that #Kate & #KWrite are a good example. Both now use the same editor component, but Kate adds a LOT of extra functionality to it. The #KDEPIM suite uses the same trick with it's components - they can run separately or as one combined app (#Kontact).
I'm not fully across the technology, so if any experts wish to correct me, feel free. 🤠
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#KDE has long had a technology called #KParts. Basically you can set up something (including a full app) as a #KPart component and use it elsewhere as part of another (tools bars and menus will merge).
My understanding is that #Kate & #KWrite are a good example. Both now use the same editor component, but Kate adds a LOT of extra functionality to it. The #KDEPIM suite uses the same trick with it's components - they can run separately or as one combined app (#Kontact).
I'm not fully across the technology, so if any experts wish to correct me, feel free. 🤠
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#KDE has long had a technology called #KParts. Basically you can set up something (including a full app) as a #KPart component and use it elsewhere as part of another (tools bars and menus will merge).
My understanding is that #Kate & #KWrite are a good example. Both now use the same editor component, but Kate adds a LOT of extra functionality to it. The #KDEPIM suite uses the same trick with it's components - they can run separately or as one combined app (#Kontact).
I'm not fully across the technology, so if any experts wish to correct me, feel free. 🤠
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@lunkki #Tuta-tili on nyt luotu. Uutta sähköpostia en tosin olisi tarvinnut, oma osoitteeni on ollut jo parikymmentä vuotta webhotellissa (joka on pariin kertaan vaihtunut).
Tuta tarjoaa sovelluksen #Android'iin ja jonkinlaisen (#AppImage'na pyörivän) myös #Linux'iin. Jälkimmäinen arveluttaa, mutta kokeillaan. Kytkemisestä käytössä oleviin ohjelmiin (#KMail, #Kontact tai vaikka #Vivaldi) ei ilmeisesti kannata uneksia.
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@andreasgoebel @lerothas
Nur der Form halber. #KMail ist in #kontact integriert. Zusammen ist das ein sehr leistungsstarkes #PIM.Du kannst KMail also entweder alleine oder in Kombination mit Kontact nutzen.
Es ist vlt. einfacher zu sagen, was du damit machen möchtest und dann können wir dir gerne sagen, ob das geht.
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What has the #KDE PIM team been up to in May and June? Go read our bi-monthly blogpost to find out! 😀
https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-07-01-kde-pim-may-june-2024/
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Auf dem Desktop wird #KDE benutzt, für E-Mails, Termine und Kontakte #Kontact, mit #Kolab als #Backend. Verzeichnisse auf dem Server (auch /home) werden per #NFS und automounter verwendet, Benutzer per #LDAP verwaltet. #Samba verbindet Windows und Linux.
Ja, man kommt so nicht vollständig um teure Lizenzen herum, aber man tritt sich nicht den ganzen #Microsoft-Bullshit ein. Nur so weit wie eben notwendig. /2
#buchhaltung #linuxaufdemdesktop -
Auf dem Desktop wird #KDE benutzt, für E-Mails, Termine und Kontakte #Kontact, mit #Kolab als #Backend. Verzeichnisse auf dem Server (auch /home) werden per #NFS und automounter verwendet, Benutzer per #LDAP verwaltet. #Samba verbindet Windows und Linux.
Ja, man kommt so nicht vollständig um teure Lizenzen herum, aber man tritt sich nicht den ganzen #Microsoft-Bullshit ein. Nur so weit wie eben notwendig. /2
#buchhaltung #linuxaufdemdesktop -
Auf dem Desktop wird #KDE benutzt, für E-Mails, Termine und Kontakte #Kontact, mit #Kolab als #Backend. Verzeichnisse auf dem Server (auch /home) werden per #NFS und automounter verwendet, Benutzer per #LDAP verwaltet. #Samba verbindet Windows und Linux.
Ja, man kommt so nicht vollständig um teure Lizenzen herum, aber man tritt sich nicht den ganzen #Microsoft-Bullshit ein. Nur so weit wie eben notwendig. /2
#buchhaltung #linuxaufdemdesktop -
I just gave up on #kmail and the whole #Kontact KDE #pim thing... Couldn't get the accounts in KMail to work, where via #thunderbird the process went smooth, without any problems at all.
I am gonna try #evolution too just to see if it's better than Thunderbird, but I think I will stay with the latter...
Shame, I so wanted to use Kontact. -
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By Dolphin Whisperer
When a band draws so clearly on an aged aesthetic, the results can be hard to parse as pastiche, worship, or otherwise. Even moreso in niche corners like the epic heavy metal crowd, where soaring vocals of varying qualities—all hoping to stick in your mind regardless—triumph alongside thick kicks, thicker riffs, and battle-tested builds, worshippers of the riff conflict with worshippers of the riffers. Enter Kontact, a young Canadian troupe whose 2022 release, the cheeky-titled EP First Contact, played tightly on the ideas set forth by the idiosyncratic but ever-mountainous Manilla Road, but with enough of their space-bound palette to paint a few stripes of their own. And while that’s still partly a base for their direction, this debut full-length exposure Full Contact calls other colorful, elder influences to the plate: a dash of Venom, a touch of Alice Cooper, and a lot of purple.1 But does a more diverse palette open the gates for a deeper form of Kontact?
Never quite the one-trick pony, the tones that built First Contact and flesh out Full Contact contain a bright and bouncing influence that moves tracks faster than the typical epic speed. Reverb affections and hopping synth lines pull a Killing Joke swirl into the cutting heavy metal that Kontact still loves (“Emperor of Dreams,” “Heavy Leather”). And like the bands of olde, this fresh troupe knows how to rock, throwing down fist-pumping numbers (“Bloodchild,” “Spectral Fire”) and creeping occult summonings (“Watcher at the Edge of Time”) with little regard for our current era. But can we talk about the vocals for a second?
I’ve no clue what prompted vocalist (and bassist) Ian Lemke (ex-Blackrat) to change his techniques so dramatically, but moving from a warbling, trad metal-reaching croon to a pure nasal sneer hasn’t done anything for the songs here. At its best, his mic-work provides brief respite from his unfortunate goblin-esque tone, with the introductory “Emperor of Dreams” teasing at a King Diamond falsetto wail—one that he never repeats—or interspersed oughs and eughs that punctuate musical shifts to heavier waters. But most of what we get throughout Full Kontact are goofy metal lyrics read by an Alice Cooper knock-off with a serious nose injury. There’s a truly disappointing character to this incessant vocal choice, one that will absolutely make or break how long the projected runtime of a thirty-two-minute heavy metal album feels, especially when the tempo drops and you can hear every syllable of plugged-nostril babble (“Watcher at the Edge of Time”).
Despite what happens front and center (with un-charming reverb) via mouth noises, Kontact can write a damn good tune. The spacious and wailing master allows synth inclusions to enter with gusto (“Heavy Leather”) and provides the atmosphere of a B-movie space attack (“Emperor of Dreams”). Faster tempo cuts that border the proto-black rumble of Venom prove to be the closest to overcoming—or rather just plain fitting—the snarling snafu, with Lemke’s warm bass rumbles playing against crunchy, cutting riffs and an old-school kick boom (“Doppelgänger,” “Spectral Fire”). Axeslingers Matt Ries (Hrom, Traveler) and Alex Langill (Hrom) know their way around a tight solo and stacked-amp drives, galloping alongside Tanner Wolff’s booming toms and whiplash tempo changes (“Ixaxar,” “Spectral Fire”). It’s too bad they’re held back by every verse and chorus.
For many of us who appreciate the less-than-perfect charm of a crackling scream and tastefully flat yell, the journey of heavy metal has landed us with loves for bands whose vocals often exist as ‘an acquired taste.’ It’s possible too, then, that you, the reader, will find this eccentric attraction in the purposefully narrow expression that Kontact has put forth with this edition of their exuberant and gripping songcraft. Kontact’s introductory mantra claims that they ‘come in peace.’ Well, I’m going to need to see a treaty that states the next album will be the best of all the worlds they’ve explored so far.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 102 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Dying Victims Productions | Bandcamp
Websites: kontactheavymetal.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/kontact.heavy.metal
Releases Worldwide: January 19th, 2024#20 #2024 #AliceCooper #Blackrat #CanadianMetal #DyingVictimsProductions #FullContact #HeavyMetal #Hrom #Jan24 #KillingJoke #KingDiamond #Kontact #ManillaRoad #OccultRock #Review #Reviews #Traveler #Venom
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By Dolphin Whisperer
When a band draws so clearly on an aged aesthetic, the results can be hard to parse as pastiche, worship, or otherwise. Even moreso in niche corners like the epic heavy metal crowd, where soaring vocals of varying qualities—all hoping to stick in your mind regardless—triumph alongside thick kicks, thicker riffs, and battle-tested builds, worshippers of the riff conflict with worshippers of the riffers. Enter Kontact, a young Canadian troupe whose 2022 release, the cheeky-titled EP First Contact, played tightly on the ideas set forth by the idiosyncratic but ever-mountainous Manilla Road, but with enough of their space-bound palette to paint a few stripes of their own. And while that’s still partly a base for their direction, this debut full-length exposure Full Contact calls other colorful, elder influences to the plate: a dash of Venom, a touch of Alice Cooper, and a lot of purple.1 But does a more diverse palette open the gates for a deeper form of Kontact?
Never quite the one-trick pony, the tones that built First Contact and flesh out Full Contact contain a bright and bouncing influence that moves tracks faster than the typical epic speed. Reverb affections and hopping synth lines pull a Killing Joke swirl into the cutting heavy metal that Kontact still loves (“Emperor of Dreams,” “Heavy Leather”). And like the bands of olde, this fresh troupe knows how to rock, throwing down fist-pumping numbers (“Bloodchild,” “Spectral Fire”) and creeping occult summonings (“Watcher at the Edge of Time”) with little regard for our current era. But can we talk about the vocals for a second?
I’ve no clue what prompted vocalist (and bassist) Ian Lemke (ex-Blackrat) to change his techniques so dramatically, but moving from a warbling, trad metal-reaching croon to a pure nasal sneer hasn’t done anything for the songs here. At its best, his mic-work provides brief respite from his unfortunate goblin-esque tone, with the introductory “Emperor of Dreams” teasing at a King Diamond falsetto wail—one that he never repeats—or interspersed oughs and eughs that punctuate musical shifts to heavier waters. But most of what we get throughout Full Kontact are goofy metal lyrics read by an Alice Cooper knock-off with a serious nose injury. There’s a truly disappointing character to this incessant vocal choice, one that will absolutely make or break how long the projected runtime of a thirty-two-minute heavy metal album feels, especially when the tempo drops and you can hear every syllable of plugged-nostril babble (“Watcher at the Edge of Time”).
Despite what happens front and center (with un-charming reverb) via mouth noises, Kontact can write a damn good tune. The spacious and wailing master allows synth inclusions to enter with gusto (“Heavy Leather”) and provides the atmosphere of a B-movie space attack (“Emperor of Dreams”). Faster tempo cuts that border the proto-black rumble of Venom prove to be the closest to overcoming—or rather just plain fitting—the snarling snafu, with Lemke’s warm bass rumbles playing against crunchy, cutting riffs and an old-school kick boom (“Doppelgänger,” “Spectral Fire”). Axeslingers Matt Ries (Hrom, Traveler) and Alex Langill (Hrom) know their way around a tight solo and stacked-amp drives, galloping alongside Tanner Wolff’s booming toms and whiplash tempo changes (“Ixaxar,” “Spectral Fire”). It’s too bad they’re held back by every verse and chorus.
For many of us who appreciate the less-than-perfect charm of a crackling scream and tastefully flat yell, the journey of heavy metal has landed us with loves for bands whose vocals often exist as ‘an acquired taste.’ It’s possible too, then, that you, the reader, will find this eccentric attraction in the purposefully narrow expression that Kontact has put forth with this edition of their exuberant and gripping songcraft. Kontact’s introductory mantra claims that they ‘come in peace.’ Well, I’m going to need to see a treaty that states the next album will be the best of all the worlds they’ve explored so far.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 102 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Dying Victims Productions | Bandcamp
Websites: kontactheavymetal.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/kontact.heavy.metal
Releases Worldwide: January 19th, 2024#20 #2024 #AliceCooper #Blackrat #CanadianMetal #DyingVictimsProductions #FullContact #HeavyMetal #Hrom #Jan24 #KillingJoke #KingDiamond #Kontact #ManillaRoad #OccultRock #Review #Reviews #Traveler #Venom
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If the lovely @kde people manage to somehow fix the non-standard scrollbar in the Kmail mail viewport (I think it has to do with the HTML engine used for that viewport), KDE will be perfect.
Well, not really, since no software is perfect, but that scrollbar *really* bothers me.
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I was testing #Merkuro apps (the calendar, contacts and mail) and I think they're good but they need to mature a bit more.. so, #Korganizer and #Kontact still continue to fulfill as the most functional official KDE apps as a personal organizer
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@climbertobby I appreciate their efforts.
#Kontact has been the goto Gui Email Client for me. My girlfriend is using it successfully after using Apple Mail for years. Only downside is that these days operators can limit the client they accept to connect to their email severs. -
Empath (a.k.a. Mikko Ihalainen) - forthcoming gigs.
#Empath #MikkoIhalainen #FinnishTechno #techno #FinnishAmbient #ambient #Tampere #TampereConnection #Finland #KontactRecords #Kontact #Swaeg #Swäg #Grotesk #Helsinki #Vakiopaine #Jyväskylä #BuRu #Halvtrak
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Empath (a.k.a. Mikko Ihalainen) - forthcoming gigs.
#Empath #MikkoIhalainen #FinnishTechno #techno #FinnishAmbient #ambient #Tampere #TampereConnection #Finland #KontactRecords #Kontact #Swaeg #Swäg #Grotesk #Helsinki #Vakiopaine #Jyväskylä #BuRu #Halvtrak
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Empath (a.k.a. Mikko Ihalainen) - forthcoming gigs.
#Empath #MikkoIhalainen #FinnishTechno #techno #FinnishAmbient #ambient #Tampere #TampereConnection #Finland #KontactRecords #Kontact #Swaeg #Swäg #Grotesk #Helsinki #Vakiopaine #Jyväskylä #BuRu #Halvtrak
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"Tampere Connection", a forthcoming compilation of artists from "Finland's Manchester", on Kontact Records (Helsinki).
#VariousArtists #Kompleksi #KompleksiEclectro #Kontact #KontactRecords #eclectro #electro #MikeNot #pHinn #Tampere #Finland #TampereConnection
