On Tuesday, 2011-08-16, Duncan wrote: > Kevin Krammer posted on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:53:41 +0200 as excerpted: > > On Sunday, 2011-08-14, Martin Bednár wrote: > >> first of all, I'd like to state that I'm all in for the Akonadi concept > >> > >> : a central storage for pim-related (and other) data; endless > >> > >> possibilities. > > FWIW, the kdepim developers can do what they want, I understand the idea > of the synergies involved and I know it's useful for kontact all-in-one- > view users especially, but for my usage (kmail/kaddressbook and akregator > only, as separate apps, I used pan for news and don't need an organizer > or do IM), all that heavy-duty database stuff was rather like using a > howitzer to kill a fly. The common infrastructure is actually more useful for the separate apps use case than the all-in-one app. An all-in-one application can easily achieve most of these features internally, it is separate apps when providing solutions for common problems makes a difference. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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