On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 06:49:08 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually, I think you'll find a lot of folks agreeing with you. The new
> akonadified kmail is more problems than it's worth, and a lot of former
> kmail users are just that, FORMER kmail users, as a result.
>
> I know I am!
I am just trying to understand why KDE feels they need to look and feel like windows and have the system do everything for you.
> As I'm on gentoo and pretty much totally exterminated both akonadi and
> semantic-desktop from my system (gentoo's build-from-source, so allows an
> admin to configure support for optional features such as semantic-desktop
> and akonadi in or out at build-time, I've configured it OUT!) back in the
> kde 4.7 era, I've forgotten the details and can't simply run it and look,
> but the general idea is...
I am running Sabayon. I am not yet skilled enough to run Gentoo.
> Go to your akonadi accounts control (I think it's in kde settings, aka
> system settings, except they're kde settings, not system settings for the
> most part, no matter WHAT the name is) and find and delete the mail
> accounts. That should solve that problem.
Thank you very much. I found here the account setting for all my mail accounts and removed them.
> If you don't need akonadi running for anything else, you may be able to
> configure it not to start with kde, as well. That will save you the
> resources it uses. But as I said, it's used by several other programs in
> the kdepim module now too, and if you are using one of those, you'll
> probably have to let it run... at least until you can find alternatives
> to those programs and switch for them too.
I see only the following in my setup;
akonadi_akonotes_resource_0
Notes
Local Folders
I am not sure what they do or if I really need them.
How does one go about stopping akonadi?
> If that's not specific enough, hopefully someone else with akonadi still
> installed can get you something more specific, but that's the general
> idea, anyway...
Thank you very much. You have been very helpful.
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