Re: Fwd: akonadi 4 & 5 not coinstallable !

On Friday, 2015-12-25, 19:15:04, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Friday December 25 2015 12:40:09 Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> > > I am sad to read that Akonadi is no longer considered a user's PIM hub
> > > and is now just an implementation detail of KDEPIM.
> 
> ...
> 
> > It may be reasonable to move away from a MySQL (DBMS) backend as it
> > makes it a bit more difficult for the field to troubleshoot issues.
> 
> It also appears to me that Akonadi is what drove many users nuts and away
> from KMail and family, in KDE4. The use of a DB store is a separate issue.

It was mostly a scape goat though.

A uniform data access API was a really nice evolution, the central access 
through a service basically a requirement.

The initial goal was to be able to serve the PIM needs of any application even 
allow for third party developers to create specialized user interfaces.

I think Zanshin is the only example for the latter that has ever been released 
but I might be missing some others.

It is of course understandable that having it simply as a private, internal 
component makes the maintainability a lot easier, but as someone who is still 
hooked to the initial idea it is still quite a sad change.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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