On Saturday 18 June 2011 16:28:11 Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Samstag, 18. Juni 2011, 07:16:20 schrieb kanenas@hawaii.rr.com:
If we all had pdp-8s and a 2000 entry addressbook, it might be arguable that saving a few k of memory was important enough to change the whole system. In this thread and in many others many have complained about the direction of kde4 and many of us also voted by simply staying out of kde4. In this thread there seems to be a genuine effort to urge developers to go back to simplicity ( from the user point of view) and allow the user more control over system setup. The particular example of the imposed link between kaddressbook and database indexers is a show stopper for me.
That's no problem. Everybody is entitled to make their own choices. Just don't expect that things will change just because you want to or because xy is a showstopper for you.
You might claim that KDE4 lost users and I might concur. Yet I claim that it gained more than it lost thus there is nothing to worry about since it's normal that not everybody is happy with change. It's simply impossible. You might think differently but that's just the way it is and only time will tell whether KDE4 is really that bad (bling, bloated and everything else people claim) and dying because it looses more users and developers than it attracts.
And btw akonadi is not only meant to save tome kb of memory. So I'd say, get involved first, get some info and then simply decide whether you move on to some other piece of software or stay with KDE4 and its development.
Since kdepim 4.6 IMAP got a lot faster and works even after resuming from suspend. That was a real showstopper IMO rather than you not wanting some package installed or in memory.
I hope you did not mean nepomuk by "database indexers" because the indexing bit is strigi and not nepomuk and the latter one can be disabled without loosing any features in kdepim AFAIK.
Sven, you are just a rah rah boy for KDE4 and have been since 4.0 when it didn't work a all. Defending the undefendable and chastising people who had the gall to criticize it. Making broad sweeping statements about how much better this is for us and we just don't understand and appreciate it. You continue to do that now based on only your own opinion. Well, it isn't better for all of us. FYI I have tried to accept the inevitable laboring through each iteration of supposed progrssion with great dissapointment and declining hope. Now that we have reached 4.6 I am beginning to like it with renewed hope for the future releases. BUT!!!, As long as I cannot have a working address book I CANNOT use it. That IS a showstopper. So please save your breath about the "advantages" we do not appreciate because of our ignorance. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org