[kde-freebsd] Re: Call for test: KDE PIM 4.6.0

[Matt Dawson]

On Wednesday 15 June 2011 11:06:09 Oliver Heesakkers wrote:
> Slightly off-topic, but has anyone ever started a fork of kmail for
> the sake 'light'-ness?

...and freedom from akonadi? There seems to be some sort of "let's 
have a database or nine" theme going with KDE4. I have to include a 
shutdown script for my session that finds akonadiserver's PID, calls 
akonadictl shutdown and waits for it to die when I log out or my 
rc.shutdown times out on unkillable processes (NewNFS mounted /home, 
if that makes a difference). Add to that the upgrade from 4.6.2 to 
4.6.3 [1] broke the thing completely and required me to find akonadirc 
and mess with it before it would deign to allow kmail to run (bit of a 
brown trousers moment there as it has about five years of archives and 
details of an in-progress insurace claim) and it becomes apparent that 
the thing is, to put it bluntly, a menace.

What is the rationale behind akonadi, anyway? If it's this "semantic 
desktop" stuff, I don't want it. I've turned Nepomuk firmly off. I 
know where my files are and what's in them without having half my CPU 
time tied up, my network flooded and my disks thrashed indexing them, 
not to mention the grief getting it to actually work in the first 
place. This /home mount has crossed many a major version boundary, so 
it's quite well endowed with files.

Failing that, recommendations for a databaseless graphical mail client 
that can stick mailing list posts in a directory on receipt, does not 
honour receipt requests and web beacons, displays plain text only when 
I tell it to, works with SSL/TLS/MSA, has a working GnuPG interface 
and allows me to set headers like X-Face?

[1] Still on 4.6.3. I've work to do [2] and my mail client breaking 
sort of stymies that idea for a while. Claws isn't a replacement and I 
don't trust Thunderbird.

[2] While this all seems to come off as a rant, there is still the 
little angelic me on my shoulder reminding me that this is all a 
volunteer effort and I really should shut my trap. Then there's a 
beastie on the other one reminding me how much hair I have left and 
it's only my own stubborn resistance of Cupertino, Redmond and the 
thought of someone else appointing themselves as my master that is 
making it come out in clumps ;o)
-- 
Matt Dawson
MTD15-RIPE
matt at chronos.org.uk