On Monday 21 June 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday, 2010-06-21, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > Can anyone enlighten me or point me to an explanation of what the > > various Akonadi agents do? > > Sure. > > Agents are helper processes, that do things on behalf of the user > applications. > You can think of them as being similar to system daemons, just on a > user session level.
Kevin, thanks for the explanation. There's one crucial thing I'm not clear about yet: Are the resource agents -- supposed to be -- the path of access to the given resource? I don't have resources for notes and bookmarks, still KNotes sees its notes and Konqueror as well as the Bookmark Editor have access to their bookmarks. I take this to mean that these programs access the data around the resource agents. The same might be true for contacts and calendar in Kontact. > > I have no clear idea what agents for "Bookmarks", "Dummy > > MailTransport Resource", "Maildir", "Mbox", "POP3", "Notes", > > "Nepomuk Tags", "Usenet Newsgroups" are good for. None of these > > are or were running. > > Dummy MailTransport Resource sounds like a development related > thingy, i.e. not something that should be installed in a normal > system. > Probably an error in upstream's build system files. I don't quite understand what the purposes of the mail-related agents are. Does Nepomuk use them to index mail? Where and how are they configured "publicly"? I can configure them in akonadiconsole, but that's a development tool. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:[email protected] http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
