[Kde-pim] Akonadi: single database design mistake?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 02 December 2011, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:40:29AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > KMail is not only for corporate users, but also for personal users.
> > And while most of them might use IMAP already - although I read
> > from quite some POP3 based setups on kdepim-users - not everyone
> > has that amount of intelligence on the server that Zimbra
> > features.
> > 
> > But even then I see benefits for Akonadi such as better
> > disconnected IMAP with fast fulltext search.
> 
> Yes, it can do fast fulltext search. But does _everyone_ need it?

Yes. Everybody needs it. The success of Google is the proof enough for 
me that everybody needs fast fulltext search. Of course, in case of an 
(online) IMAP account this search should be outsourced to the server.


> > Also Nepomuk from KDE 4.7.2 seems to behave much saner than before.
> > It crawled even this new ThinkPad T520 almost down to a halt at
> > times - I am exaggerating this a bit I admit -, but now is barely
> > noticable. For that it takes more time to index my home folder -
> > than it likely would have taken, didn´t it crash on some file
> > before -, but searching for stuff thats already indexed is really
> > fast. And its a 956 MB big Virtuoso index already.
> 
> Unfortunately speed of searches argument does not work for me. I
> understand that searching might be important for some people but you
> (as in KDE/akonadi/nepomuk developers) need to understand that it is
> not _the_ killer feature for everyone. I.e. if a person (me) never
> uses it then any amount of CPU cycles spent on indexing and be ready
> to search is utter waste in the eyes of such person. And while the
> cycles burnt are not really noticeable that's OK, but when you start
> wondering what is going on with your box then you start to complain.

Your mail must be very well organized if you never felt the need to do a 
fulltext search.


Regards,
Ingo
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