[Kde-pim] *******, akonadi

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2012-04-13, ianseeks wrote:

> If Kontact etc was truly modular, it would follow the Unix way and you'd be
> able to install kontact without Akonadi etc and it would still work as it
> should. That is my only gripe with kontact, bugs come with all software
> during development.

Since Akonadi is a runtime dependency respective package dependencies could be 
arranged.
However that wouldn't make much sense, e.g. like running an FTP client in a 
network that you have ensure will not ever have an FTP server.

That might be interesting for educational purposes, e.g. showing somebody else 
how an FTP client looks like, but that would also be rather lmiited given you 
can't show how it works.

If Kontact were made separately installable from Akonadi, one could show which 
modules it has but not how they work due to any meaningful definition on "how 
it works" requiring one to have some test data.

So the program would basically need a way to prompt the user for installation 
of Akonadi, but I am not sure there is a reliable way to do that right now.

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