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On 29/05/2015 17:54, Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 29 May 2015 16:28:57 Alan Grimes wrote: |
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>> Mick wrote: |
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>>> On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>>> I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally |
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>>>> [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0) |
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>>>> was not being started. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> [1] Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've created a new user and |
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>>>> re-imported its 14,000 e-mails, and until this latest time I've copied |
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>>>> the .mozilla directory from the old user to the new. This time I did |
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>>>> not, and so far all looks rosy. I'm not counting any chickens yet |
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>>>> though. |
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>>> |
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>>> Did you try deleting the akonadi database file(s) and restarting it |
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>>> instead of creating a new user? You will have to be patient, probably |
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>>> let it run overnight to asynchronously sync and re-index all your |
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>>> messages. |
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>> What in god's name is that stupid database for anyway? Does it perform |
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>> any useful function? Is there any tool that gives the user any |
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>> measurable benefit that even justifies one one hundredth of the CPU and |
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>> disk bandwidth consumed by this missfeature? |
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> |
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> I think you're preaching to the converted here. I don't think you'll find |
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> many advocates in this M/L who support the KDE4 desktop design decision as a |
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> sound architectural choice for your average Linux user. I think they were |
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> trying to market a desktop for the enterprise and were following Gnome's |
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> approach of semantic content searches. |
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> |
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> Other than the odd bug here and there I was perfectly happy with KDE3 and |
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> Kmail1 (still using with kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.4.11.1-r1). |
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Akonadi was supposed to be a once-size-fits-all central store of all pim |
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info (contacts, addresses, mails and all metadata about that) which any |
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and all apps could use. |
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The vision was that an enormous awesome ecosystem all buying into the |
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OneGrandVision(tm) would spontaneously spring up, thereby validating the |
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existence of akonadi itself due to a magic self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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This did not happen. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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