[Kde-pim] akonadi,.....same as nepomuk etc.

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Mike Arthur wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 10:15:03 Michał Flisak wrote:
> > Want to know why I am just doing now yum groupuninstall kde4  ?
> >
> > Its because of Aconadi, Nepomuc, and other useless things which are
> > "most important pieces of KDE4"
> > I think that KDE is now in dead end. This memory/processor eaters are
> > completely needless for  99% of users
> > and there is no way to get if off (ha!  as IE in XP). It's the point why
> > KDE4 need 2x more powerful system that WinXP.
> > Well, if you programmers don't know what to do, do something like
> > painting, sport or maybe home winemaking.
> > Will be Linux better.
>
> Nepomuk can be disabled. Akonadi won't be started unless you run an
> application that requires it. Neither have to be installed, your
> distribution just decided to do so.

Well, Akonadi is a build and runtime dependency for kdepimlibs so distributors 
basically have to make its package a dependency for their kdepimlibs package.

Of course it shouldn't be running unless used AFAIK, though we'll probably 
want to have the option to autostart it later on when things like mail 
fetching is handled by it.

> Akonadi will be needed for all PIM 
> users shortly and Nepomuk has the potential to be incredibly useful.

I agree. However, their potential is currently not yet as obvious to users as 
it is to us and usefulness also depends on the needed target functionality.

For example I know several people who think that NetworkManager is useless 
because they don't need automatic networking capabilities. As a laptop user I 
wouldn't want to live without.

Similar situations can probably be found for any other kind of service based 
infrastructure.

For example if your email needs are sufficiently covered by using mutt on a 
local mail dir storage, you probably won't see any benefit in offline 
capabilities or reduced loading times.

Again, for me as a user of IMAP and huge folders, the expected benefits of 
Akonadi are way to important than to want to work without.

We create software for desktop users so we address their needs. Users like 
MIchal who work in a shell session directly on their servers might consider 
that to be wrong.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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