On 09-06, Valerio Passini wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to spare resources in my system and since I have successfully > set up a MySQL db for amarok, I was thinking about using a similar > solution for akonadi. So far and despite a lot of problems, I have been > able to run it. > The documentation around Internet on this topic seems rather limited and > that's probably why I initially failed. > Summarizing: > I have created a database using mysql called akonadi with proper user > and password. > In akonaditray, I have configured the external MySQL server (db name: > akonadi; host: localhost; username: myname; pw;mypw). > The most important option I have set is actually "Options". I changed > the line originally written there with the following: > UNIX_SOCKET=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock > I don't know why akonadi was otherwise unable to start. > Then I needed to add an address book. I opened kontact -> contacts -> > New -> Add new addressbook and from that point I followed the wizard > just to migrate my resources from kabc to akonadi. > During the populating process, there were several errors related to > birthday resources (they are annoying, but they seem not harmful. I just > closed them). Anyhow, the birthdays seem correctly displayed in > Calendar. > Finally, in system activity there is just one MySQL process and not two > as previously, sparing around 20MB of RAM memory. > This would be a really good step in the right direction. At the moment I have to install a database server just to have current kopete running. Bye bye kopete. It's sad to see more and more really good kde apps leaving my desktop because of dependency overkill. Ralf
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