[kdepim-users] ONLY start KMail?

[John Aldrich]

On Thu May 13 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 
> KMail is exactly the former. The latter is Kontact. KMail, Kontact,
> KAddressBook, KOrganizer, etc. will soon all use the same backend
> Akonadi. And Akonadi comes with support for mail, contacts, calendars
> and more. In the future we may consider disabling parts of Akonadi that
> are not needed resp. loading them on demand. At the moment, we don't do
> so automatically but you can do so.
>
> Simply remove the calendar resources (akonadi_ical_resource) and the
> birthday resource with akonadiconsole. Moreover, start KAddressBook and
> delete the address books you do not need. One address book is needed in
> any case. You can also remove the akonadi_maildispatcher_agent for now.
> As soon as KMail has been ported to KDE 4.5 this will be used for
> sending mail.
>
Thank you! That's what I was looking for. In my (not so humble) opinion, 
forcing all that other stuff to start with KMail defeats the purpose of 
having "just an email client."  I appreciate you telling me how to disable 
that stuff, and I have done so. OTOH, it's still showing the VCF resource, 
and I'm not sure how, or if I should, disable it. Still with 90% of the 
"extra" stuff not running because I removed it, I'm mostly happy.
> 
> It's a matter of definition. KMail and KAddressBook (and any other KDE
> application that use contacts) use the same backend for accessing
> address information. Nowadays, this means Akonadi. So, strictly
> speaking, KMail does not need KAddressBook. KMail does need Akonadi (and
> Nepomuk for contact groups).
> 
> Calendars are not needed by KMail, so there is no real need for an
> Akonadi calendar resource.
> 
> 
Exactly. I'm not sure why, but Nepomuk is not running on my system, but 
that's OK, AFAIAC.  Thanks for explaining how to disable that stuff from 
starting with KMail. It makes no sense, as I mentioned above, to start the 
calendaring stuff with KMail if you only want email.
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