Problems with akonadi and kmail

[Duncan]

Marcelo Magno T. Sales posted on Sun, 09 May 2010 10:09:48 -0300 as
excerpted:

>> This is a known problem, see
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230250. Doesn't look like much is
>> being done about it, though.
> 
> So many opened bugs to fix in kde-pim, so many basic things broken and
> developers seem to think it's better to introduce new "features" (with
> new bugs) instead of fixing the existing ones...

FWIW, kmail itself is to be "akonadified" for kde 4.5.  I think they 
believe that will fix some of the issues, as it's sort of betwixt and 
between, now, with only the address book akonadified.  Of course, that 
assumes akonadi itself either continues to work or is fixed.

One thing about it is that the current default backend is mysql, which 
hasn't proven as stable as desired.  They're hoping to switch the default 
to either postgres (the backend wasn't ready yet for 4.4) or virtuoso 
(from 4.4, the default nepomuk backend, but it's new and akonadi wasn't 
ready for it yet for 4.4).  If mysql is kept, there's at least one bug-fix 
in the pipeline for it as well.

So one way or another, things should get better.  And I'm hoping for the 
virtuoso backend myself as I expect it to be the most stable, once it's 
there.  But I'm not sure whether it'll all be ready for 4.5, or whether 
it'll be 4.6 before most of these bugs get worked out.  Hopefully 4.5, 
but...

-- 
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