Still 100% CPU when using Kontact - nearly SOLVED!
A.J. Bonnema
gbonnema at xs4all.nl
Sun Oct 13 08:52:54 UTC 2013
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.
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