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160712 Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 12 Jul 2016 20:06:05 Jens Reinemuth wrote: |
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>> KDE 5 is usable iff you dont use kdepim/akonadi with mailing lists ... |
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>> As soon as my count of Mails grow over some thousands, |
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>> Akonadi simply stops working, ie is no longer fetching or displaying Mail. |
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>> The desktop is cool and stable pim is not really since some versions ago. |
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> I don't use the full plasma desktop, but use KDEPIM and some other KDE apps |
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> with all their unavoidable dependencies. It is usable for me, |
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> on two machines where akonadi is running on MySQL |
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> and on my laptop with PostgreSQL. I use Enlightenment as my day to day DE |
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> and Fluxbox as a fall back. Having to install some parts of Plasma |
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> does not mean you have to use it as your desktop. |
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I'm quite satisfied with Fluxbox & have no intention of using KDE desktop. |
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> You need some CPU horsepower and patience |
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> to let Akonadi index all messages in the database. |
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> If your PC is resource constrained, |
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> it'll have trouble managing large mail boxes. |
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> I remember a Pentium Duo with 4G RAM taking overnight to update mailboxes, |
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> which in their totality contained more than 125,000 messages. |
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> When I repeated the exercise with < 5000 messages, the response |
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> was much more reasonable : it took a few minutes, rather than hours. |
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I've been a contented user of Mutt since 1998, so that's no problem. |
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BTW Whatever is the point of keeping 125 K mail messages ? |
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-- at 1 min each , it would take 90 days to read them (without sleep). |
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As for desktop indexing, it's simply an overweight tool |
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for those too lazy to keep their directories + files in proper order (smile). |
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It seems to have been invented to try to help users of proprietary systems |
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which make it difficult to keep track of anything for long. |
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Anyone else have comments on using KDE 5 ? -- thanks so far. |
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