Bug 317709

Summary:	Add an option to disable Akonadi
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	Woodsman <darrella>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.10
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Woodsman 2013-04-01 23:22:30 UTC

Akonadi is useful to certain types of users, such as enterprise users, users with a significant amount of personal data, those who store personal information remotely, etc. Such users welcome the Akonadi framework. At the other end of the spectrum are users who have no data coordination needs yet still would like to use KDE PIM apps.

One unpalatable option --- both for users and for KDE public relations --- is for such users not to use KDE PIM apps. Another option is to provide some kind of method to disable Akonadi.

The traditional KDE approach is to let users decide how to configure their systems. KDE developers accomplished a significant milestone when they added options in Systems Settings to control the behavior of Nepomuk, including disabling. KDE developers could achieve another milestone with a similar approach toward Akonadi.

Initially disabling Akonadi is straightforward: ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc StartServer=false.

A remaining challenge is for all Akonadi enabled apps to honor the akonadiserverrc StartServer setting and function as stand-alone apps rather than function only within the Akonadi framework.

Currently no run-time option exists to disable Akonadi within KDE PIM apps.

Other than KAlarm, currently no options exist to compile other KDE PIM apps without Akonadi.

Adding either support would be a great public relations effort for KDE developers as well as encourage many KDE users to again use KDE PIM apps.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2013-04-02 05:58:33 UTC

kdepim* uses akonadi
so we can't do it.
Close

Comment 2 Christophe Marin 2013-04-02 14:51:54 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> Initially disabling Akonadi is straightforward:
> ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc StartServer=false.
> 
Note: This statement is completely wrong. StartServer doesn't disable Akonadi. It tells Akonadi to use an external database.

Comment 3 Woodsman 2013-04-02 18:50:30 UTC

> kdepim* uses akonadi so we can't do it.
So this is non-negotiable? End of discussion?

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2013-04-03 06:36:20 UTC

end of discussion yes.
Kdepim uses it that's all.