Still 100% CPU when using Kontact - nearly SOLVED!

[A.J. Bonnema]

On 13/10/13 05:50, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 13/10/13 04:25, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:33:57 PM A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>>> On 12/10/13 04:16, Bruce Marshall wrote: I guess my idea is that it 
>>> would be darn near impossible to separate all that
>> out!   Now that KDE is built on  akonadi/nepokuk/SQL.virtuoso etc etc I
>> consider it to all be a mess...   "Resources"  yuk!   Abd as it is. a 
>> lot of
>> things still fail to work under that organization and I view it as a 
>> house of
>> cards ready to fall.
>>
>> For example, you are supposed to be able to switch off incoming 
>> emails when
>> Kmail isn't running.  A nice thing in my view.  But it doesn't work.
>>
>> Now if all the apps could decide on a sensible method of separating
>> configuration from data, that would be a real blessing.
>>
>> But that's what we have to deal with.
>
> You mean that it is not possible in Kubuntu to create symlinks - for 
> kmail, whatever - to where you have your directories/data stored?
>
> For example, I have had my irreplaceable data (like Thunderbird mail 
> directories and Firefox config files) sitting on a second HDD in a 
> directory called Special and my Documents, .thunderbird, .mozilla, 
> Downloads, etc etc are all symlinked to Special.
>
> When I install a new version I don't have to worry about losing these 
> directories/data because they are never overwritten by the new 
> installation. All I do is create the symlinks in the newly created HOME.
>
> Simple. Been doing it for years (and it has been mentioned here and in 
> Ubuntu list).
>
> BC
>

I actually like this solution. I am certainly going to try it out. A 
drawback is, that for any new application that is important to me (i.e. 
not a game or experiment) I will have to find out actively where the 
application stores the data I find important and redirect it to a fixed 
location. In the past I have also noticed that differing distribution 
tend to have different places to store mails (thunderbird is an example 
of this).

But I will try this approach as it seems easiest to apply.

Still, I feel that linux users and developers alike are insufficiently 
aware of this being a problem. I wonder if there is a way to make sure 
this gets attention, what platform we have to file such a desire / 
complaint / bug / feature.

Guus.