[Akonadi] [Bug 317709] New: Add an option to disable Akonadi

[Woodsman]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317709

            Bug ID: 317709
           Summary: Add an option to disable Akonadi
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: Akonadi
           Version: 4.10
          Platform: Other
                OS: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: darrella at hushmail.com

Akonadi is useful to certain types of users, such as enterprise users, users
with a significant amount of personal data, those who store personal
information remotely, etc. Such users welcome the Akonadi framework. At the
other end of the spectrum are users who have no data coordination needs yet
still would like to use KDE PIM apps.

One unpalatable option --- both for users and for KDE public relations --- is
for such users not to use KDE PIM apps. Another option is to provide some kind
of method to disable Akonadi.

The traditional KDE approach is to let users decide how to configure their
systems. KDE developers accomplished a significant milestone when they added
options in Systems Settings to control the behavior of Nepomuk, including
disabling. KDE developers could achieve another milestone with a similar
approach toward Akonadi.

Initially disabling Akonadi is straightforward:
~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc StartServer=false.

A remaining challenge is for all Akonadi enabled apps to honor the
akonadiserverrc StartServer setting and function as stand-alone apps rather
than function only within the Akonadi framework.

Currently no run-time option exists to disable Akonadi within KDE PIM apps.

Other than KAlarm, currently no options exist to compile other KDE PIM apps
without Akonadi.

Adding either support would be a great public relations effort for KDE
developers as well as encourage many KDE users to again use KDE PIM apps.


Reproducible: Always

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