[dundee] Those pesky KDE devs...just a moan

[gordon dunlop]

2009/12/10 Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>

> WARNING: Winter-blonde rant ahead, no need to read it.
>
>
> Just updated one of my desktop machines to discover that Akonadi (a sort of
> central store for contact information) is installed by default:
> unfortunately
> it also requires mysql and launches one instance per user, using up
> 100Mb-odd
> of disk-space just to start, minimum, per-user (NOT very handy if you have
> a
> per-user quota of 200Mb). Can't be used on NFS (because of MySQL issues).
> Can't be disabled (it'll just start up again). Can't be un-installed (can't
> open emails in kmail/kontact if you do). Yummy. How wonderful, now we have
> to
> run MySQL (or Postgresql, although that isn't finished yet) for each user
> in
> order to just get our contacts, or emails...and if either crashes users
> cannot
> get emails (how they would be expected to know that). It also buggered up
> their chat programs (insisting on a central store for passwords, or
> summat).
>
>   Did you look at system settings -> advanced -> Akonadi Configuration

  or ~.kde/share/config

 Gordon


> Rant over. Nothing to see here.
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