On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:31:55 +0100, Martin wrote in message
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> Steve Litt - 22.12.23, 01:55:49 CET:
> > Martin Steigerwald said on Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:12:15 +0100
> >
> > >I use KDE, nowadays KDE's Plasma, for more than 20 years. I am
> > >mostly happy with it, except still some pitfalls with Akonadi
> >

> >                                                 ^^^^^^^

> >
> > Nuff said!
> >
> > Did they finally get rid of that hot mess nepomuk?
>
> Nepomuk which was based on Virtuoso is long gone. Maybe for 5 years
> at least, maybe even 10 years? AFAIR I did not make it into version 5.
>
> It is possible to use Plasma without much involvement of Akonadi. I
> still use KMail cause frankly IMHO it is one of the best GUI based
> mail clients available and also because it would be quite some work
> to start with a new client. But I am still unhappy with Akonadi.
>
> However on other systems where I do not use Akonadi or where I
> install Thunderbird for others to use I switch Akonadi to SQLite3
> backend. And then even in case it would be started its hardly
> noticeable.
>
> They plan to make SQLite3 backend the default. One of the mistakes
> behind Akonadi was to expect users to be a MariaDB or PostgreSQL
> database administrator. PostgreSQL and MariaDB are fine for servers,
> but they are no desktop databases.
>
> The switch to SQLite3 backend as default will not solve every
> remaining issue with Akonadi.
>
> While I like Plasma very much, Akonadi is kind of a sad story really.
> It started with an over complex design and all attempts to fix it up
> in the last decade were not really complete. I am still not sure
> whether an rewrite would have been better. There was an attempt at a
> replacement for Akonadi which looked very promising. However… part of
> the KDEPIM developer community stuck with Akonadi, so that only a
> most 3 people worked on the alternative. It is still used in the Kube
> mail client however.
>
> https://kube-project.com/ (but seems to time out at the moment)

..try https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/kube-project.com

> What I would like is to stuff mail into notmuch and have a really
> nice Qt/ KDE Frameworks based mail client. Cause frankly, I like the
> attitude of the notmuch developers: It is really not much mail.
>
> I have seen web client of Zimbra Collaboration Suite being responsive
> with a LKML folder with 450000+ mails by just displaying the first
> 1000-2000 mails and loading more as you scroll down about 10 years
> ago. So it definitely can be done.
>
> Best,


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