On Friday 29 May 2015 16:28:57 Alan Grimes wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally > >> [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0) > >> was not being started. > >> > >> [1] Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've created a new user and > >> re-imported its 14,000 e-mails, and until this latest time I've copied > >> the .mozilla directory from the old user to the new. This time I did > >> not, and so far all looks rosy. I'm not counting any chickens yet > >> though. > > > > Did you try deleting the akonadi database file(s) and restarting it > > instead of creating a new user? You will have to be patient, probably > > let it run overnight to asynchronously sync and re-index all your > > messages. > > What in god's name is that stupid database for anyway? Does it perform > any useful function? Is there any tool that gives the user any > measurable benefit that even justifies one one hundredth of the CPU and > disk bandwidth consumed by this missfeature?
I think you're preaching to the converted here. I don't think you'll find many advocates in this M/L who support the KDE4 desktop design decision as a sound architectural choice for your average Linux user. I think they were trying to market a desktop for the enterprise and were following Gnome's approach of semantic content searches. Other than the odd bug here and there I was perfectly happy with KDE3 and Kmail1 (still using with kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.4.11.1-r1). -- Regards, Mick
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