[Kde-pim] unwanted akonadi startup - how to kill it?

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 03 January 2010 21:08:33 ComputerDruid wrote:
> On Sunday 03 January 2010 15:52:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 January 2010 19:09:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I have some old root mail in /var/spool/mail/root.  My intention was to
> > >
> > >  check in kwrite that there was only old messages, then delete it.
> > >  However, as soon as I clicked on it (in root dolphin) it attempted to
> > >  start up akonadi.  It's still whizzing back and forth, and I can't
> > > find a way to stop it.
> >
> > It was in fact trying to start a new KMail, and I did eventually manage
> > to kill it.
> 
> Let me just mention that root dolphin probably isn't the greatest idea.
> 
I know - and I have put my own warning signs in place so that I stay there for 
the shortest time needed to do a specific job.

> That said, maybe the akonadi server startup should be cancelable? (With a
> warning that this might cripple some pim applications)
> 
I'm confused about what is actually happening here.  Certainly this was an 
additional akonadi server startup that was being attempted - stopping and re-
starting the local one didn't affect it.  Sooner or later, though, someone is 
going to accidentally start one as I did, so a way of cancelling it would be a 
benefit.

> Dolphin probably should have warning when being run as root also.
> 
I use a different schema that is unmistakeable - with bright blue text for 
everything.  It works perfectly for me, prompting me to close dolphin as soon 
as I have found and done whatever I was searching for.  With failing memory as 
you get older, visual searching in a file manager is much easier than CLI 
searching, particularly if I want to check whether a number of files are 
applicable to the problem of the moment, rather than a single one.  Yes, I 
know it's all possible on the CLI, but my solution is practicable for me.

Anne
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