Akonadi etc

[Waleed Hamra]

On 19/02/12 10:44, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> I attended a local Linux users meeting yesterday. I wanted to ask about
> Akonadi but no one there had heard of it. I then found out that I was
> the only one present using KDE.
> 
> So my question is, is akonadi a KDE only program? And if so, do other
> desktops such as Gnome, Xfce, LXDE have similar programs?
> 
> Incidentally I don't use akonadi at all and keep it switched off
> permanently. I would like to remove it altogether, but I have heard that
> could cause problems.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil
> 

hello neil,
yes, akonadi is a KDE program... now is it a KDE-only program, i do not
know, but non-KDE programs surely can interact with it if their
developers wanted to, and i think that's the eventual aim in the head of
KDE developers.
to answer why you can't remove akonadi, we'll have to try and understand
WHAT is akonadi in the first place.
the idea behind akonadi is to have a central data service installed on
KDE systems, that holds the data of programs requesting so. so instead
of having some file lying somewhere in kontact's settings, that holds
your address book, kontact will use akonadi to hold them. the benefit of
that is that other programs, can ask akonadi for it and have them, then
you'll have address book synchronization among all your programs... but
that's in the ideal world, in the current world, no other program asks
akonadi, or even acknowledges it exists, mainly because it's still this
new not-fully-developed *thing*...
akonadi can hold many different things other than address books, like
your email, calendars, bookmarks, etc...
in an effort from the KDE developers to get akonadi more popular, most
of their programs already use it as their storage, and that's why it's
needed. if you dont want it on a non-KDE system, you'll have to remove
anything related to kdepim, and the plasma-widgets-workspace.
in my experience, akonadi just sits there, doing absolutely nothing, i
dont have any service configured in it, as i use thunderbird for email,
and firefox for browser.

-- 
Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Lead Technician at Illusion Computers Megastore

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