Well, I'm not KDE developer but my understanding is that they consider Akonadi is has a good design, and so using Akonadi is meant to ultimately allow application developers to develop more reliable apps by building on top of it. I doubt rehashing this argument will do much good; it would seem better to just choose a desktop environment that reflects your values. Have you considered LXDE? It doesn't have any "cool" features, only the bare essentials but those features are all well designed, reliable and fast. All the desktop environments are fast on a Core i7 + SSD... usually..., but sometimes Gnome and KDE will slow down and a have to leave to computer for few minutes before it becomes usable again. In my experience, LXDE is *always* fast on a modern machine. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.