[kdepim-users] Fwd: HELP Kontact/Akonadi Problems

[John Wilson]

On September 9, 2010 04:30:06 am Art Alexion wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net>
> Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] HELP Kontact/Akonadi Problems
> To: scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Simon Cropper <
> 
> scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> > I have visited the online help pages and followed all the instructions,
> > check
> > all the prerequisites, etc etc but have not been able to shake this
> > problem. I
> > have uninstalled then  reinstalled the program several times to no avail.
> > 
> > I have chalked it up to Kontact/Akonadi not playing well with
> > Ubuntu/Gnome Desktop. I am however getting quite frustrated and find
> > myself searching for
> > alternative packages. Something equally good but one that does not throw
> > errors all the time.
> > 
> > As a last resort I am asking this list for help to solve this problem?
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> >   OS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
> >   Software: Kontact 4.4.2.
> >   Kmail 1.13.2.
> >   KDE Development Plantform 4.4.2
> > 
> > It has been my experience that [k]ubuntu breaks akonadi with every
> > update.
> 
>  (with kmail being my most important KDE app, this is not good)
> 
> The most recent updates broke it, as you say, on Ubuntu (gnome).  Removing
> the nepomuk hidden directories, as suggested on the userbase
> troubleshooting page, fixed it for me.
> 
By and large distros such as Mandriva are better for a KDE desktop as are  
PCLinuxOS and OpenSUSE would be a vast improvement.  I ditched Kubuntu after 
discovering a lot of the core functions of KDE were missing, disabled or 
overridden by the underlying GNOME core of Ubuntu.  And that was way back in 
the KDE 3.x days.  Kubuntu isn't KDE it's GNOME with a prettier face.

One caution, though, don't expect Akonadi to work consistently or well.   The 
devs have hoisted pre-Alpha software on us in terms of how it works with 
Kontact and KMail.  In short not at all well.  It takes some doing to get it 
to work but once it does it's fairly stable.

ttfn

John
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