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On Monday 06 Oct 2014 16:44:57 Jens Reinemuth wrote: |
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> Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2014, 18:59:31 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: |
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> > Am 05.10.2014 um 18:27 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> > > On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote:ystem all that much. |
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> > > |
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> > > My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the damn |
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> > > thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a manner I |
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> > > could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when the importer |
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> > > managed to destroy my entire mail store and leave me with nothing, so I |
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> > > switched to claws and several years later switched again to |
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> > > Thunderbird. |
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> > or even better: akonadi eating 10 years and 100 000+ archived emails. |
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> > But the gains were there - search became slower, if it worked at all and |
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> > all filters broke - several times. |
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> I can't really count how many times i simply deleted all the |
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> .config/akonadi and .local/akonadi stuff - and let akonadi regenerate it, |
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> simply because i deeply believed in the whole crap getting better! It |
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> never got better... |
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> Currently i can live with all that stuff, simply by disabling all nepomuk- |
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> and akonadi-stuff and waiting for it to show all my mails again... |
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> Funny: My wife has a second account with exactly the same settings and is |
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> deeply annoyed by the permanent popups telling her that the balloo-indexer |
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> has closed... Indeed she has disabled it!!! So i have to kill that shit |
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> every time! |
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> Most annoying story in the last time: KdePIM 4.10 simply stopped working |
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> with my private Courier-IMAP-Server, telling everyone, that courier has a |
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> bug... Ok, maybe, but it worked since every Version and just stopped |
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> because one ore more developers simply decided to do things "right"!!! |
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> No Problem in Gentoo, simply mask and downgrade kdepim-meta... I had more |
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> problems at work with Kubuntu! With KDE4.10.1 everything works as |
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> expected... |
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> But this is just a gnome-like-behavior... The developers simply don't |
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> really care what the users want or need... i really never heard of anybody |
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> saying: Oh that search stuff is cool! I use it regularily! |
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> And to go deeper: Why don't they store documents in a database, that is |
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> better optimized for documents... MongoDB? CouchDB? Instead they use this |
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> shitty mixture of MySQL and Virtuoso!? WTF? |
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No, no, no! What they should do is use Microsoft's Sharepoint server |
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solution, which stores documents in the MS SQL as binary blobs ... millions of |
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corporate users can't be wrong! O_o |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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