On 29/05/2015 17:54, Mick wrote: > On Friday 29 May 2015 16:28:57 Alan Grimes wrote: >> Mick wrote: >>> On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: >>>> I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally >>>> [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0) >>>> was not being started. >>>> >>>> [1] Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've created a new user and >>>> re-imported its 14,000 e-mails, and until this latest time I've copied >>>> the .mozilla directory from the old user to the new. This time I did >>>> not, and so far all looks rosy. I'm not counting any chickens yet >>>> though. >>> >>> Did you try deleting the akonadi database file(s) and restarting it >>> instead of creating a new user? You will have to be patient, probably >>> let it run overnight to asynchronously sync and re-index all your >>> messages. >> >> What in god's name is that stupid database for anyway? Does it perform >> any useful function? Is there any tool that gives the user any >> measurable benefit that even justifies one one hundredth of the CPU and >> disk bandwidth consumed by this missfeature? > > I think you're preaching to the converted here. I don't think you'll find > many advocates in this M/L who support the KDE4 desktop design decision as a > sound architectural choice for your average Linux user. I think they were > trying to market a desktop for the enterprise and were following Gnome's > approach of semantic content searches. > > Other than the odd bug here and there I was perfectly happy with KDE3 and > Kmail1 (still using with kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.4.11.1-r1). >
Akonadi was supposed to be a once-size-fits-all central store of all pim info (contacts, addresses, mails and all metadata about that) which any and all apps could use. The vision was that an enormous awesome ecosystem all buying into the OneGrandVision(tm) would spontaneously spring up, thereby validating the existence of akonadi itself due to a magic self-fulfilling prophecy. This did not happen. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
