On 2017-04-15, Sat 08:55:46 CEST Luca Beltrame wrote:
$ zypper install --no-recommends kmail
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What do you mean exactly with akonadi is only started "on demand"? Never mind, forget about this.
"I've hit my foot with a hammer, now why does it hurt?" ;)
Jokes aside, it was started on demand. KMail demanded it because it needs it (it handles all the email fetching and retrieval among other things).
To be honest, though, I don’t think something like Akonadi is all that bad. It doesn’t deserve that much hate. And I quite like KMail. Contrary to certain popular mail clients, it handles huge inboxes and mailing lists properly without ever blocking the UI and manages to re-break quoted lines properly. It has good GPG integration out of the box. It’s those little things that make some KDE software shine. What’s a little disconcerting, though, is that D-Bus becomes a serious bottleneck when you have something like all of opensuse-factory in a mail dir and KMail wants to fetch it. While it is still very fast, something tells me it isn’t using it very efficiently :) Unfortunately, this is rather the exception than the rule. The thing with something like Krita, for example, is that before it split off and became independent from KDE and the Calligra project, it had no chance in hell to become a useful piece of software. After all, it needs to reach *artists*, not just KDE users. Maybe that’s what we’re getting at with this non-productive rant thread.