Bug 501434

Summary: Popups pim maintenance at startup seem completely unnecessary
Product: [Applications] kdepim Reporter: PK <pieterkristensen>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: kde, martial_vipers.2p, matthesvoss2000, nate, radicalite
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description PK 2025-03-13 06:45:01 UTC
Every time I start my system there appear informational popups about the status op the PIM.

My questions:

- what do they add?
- why can't I turn them off?

In a system that is so much attention to not giving all kinds of redundant information these popups look so strange and annoying.
Imho a user isn't interested in the status of internal processes at all.
Comment 1 PK 2025-03-13 06:46:02 UTC
(In reply to PK from comment #0)
> Every time I start my system there appear informational popups about the
> status op the PIM.
> 
> My questions:
> 
> - what do they add?
> - why can't I turn them off?
> 
> In a system that is so much attention to not giving all kinds of redundant
> information these popups look so strange and annoying.
> Imho a user isn't interested in the status of internal processes at all.

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot:
Operating System: KDE neon 6.3
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.11.0-19-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 520
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Latitude 5480
Comment 2 Matthes 2025-04-28 18:21:46 UTC
Having the same issue.
Comment 3 Ali 2025-05-20 17:23:55 UTC
Also having the same issue, though on Fedora.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 4 Michał 2025-09-03 07:32:59 UTC
Yep, on Fedora 42 these notifications seem to be often recurring after login:

akonadi_migration_agent
PIM Maintenance finished

Numerous reports of confused/annoyed users:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1mwjk8l/akonadi_pim_maintenance_finished_notification_on/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1n48rol/akonadi_migration_agent_starts_with_system_every/
- https://forums.opensuse.org/t/akonadi-migration-pim-maintenance-finished/170242
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1hvvd2l/akonadi_migration_agent_message_on_every_login/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1716005
- https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/3440639#step/desktop_notifications/19

It's unclear whether that notification coming up sometimes on EVERY login is intentional or not. On other machines it only appears from time to time. But clearly from user's perspective that notification is cryptic and useless, they might think something is broken if anything.

It seems that reportedly removing akonadi entries in ~/.cache helps with the recurrence of that notification on every login if it doesn't go away on its own?