Re: akonadi

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

On 27/08/11 02:30, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
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> Are people here using akonadi or any of the tools using the akonadi
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No. (and thanks for asking)

> Also, the same with Nepomuk. Are people using it or is it just sitting
> disabled in everyone's config?

Yes (disabled, because it's too hard to remove)

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Much as I love KDE - in Squeeze at least, two of the biggest 
disappointments are akonadi and nepomuk/strigi.

At the very least it would be nice if they could be easily removed. Then 
maybe users would stop wasting time trying to enable it in 
SystemSettings, only to complain that it doesn't work, and that it's 
*very* poorly documented.

The 11 million euro[*1] question - why does Refinder[*2] work - but not 
Nepomuk??

What happened to the system documentation?? Did the dog eat it? :-(

Nepomuk:-
#System
Useless KDE Help entries
Duplicated kde4libs documentation *instead of* the docs for libnepomuk4, 
libnepomukquery4a (which don't document how things work, or what is 
required)
no mans, no infos
#Online
http://nepomuk.semantdesktop.org [sub domain doesn't function *3]
http://nepomuk.kde.org [not bad - be better if it was on the system]

Akonadi:-
#System
least worst is /usr/share/doc/akonadi-server/README (which is next to 
useless).
Duplicated (x5) "about kdepimlibs" *instead of* the various akonadi lib 
docs (which don't document how things work, or what is required)
no mans, no infos
#Online
http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Akonadi
[mission statement, diagram] directs to:-
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/akonadi
[which could win awards for uselessness *and* it directs back to the 
previous page]
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdepimlibs-apidocs/akonadi/html/index.html 
[some developer documentation and a dead link to akonadi server 
documentation at 
http://api.kde.org/kdesupport-api/kdesupport-apidocs/akonadi/html/]
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi [a semi-useful guide to 
things that are broken]
http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi [six useful lines - and this is the best 
official document]

Obviously there is some good documentation 'somewhere' on how to enable 
the existing features of nepomuk and akonadi - or remove all traces of 
them. But where??

Cheers

[*1] 
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=PROJ_ICT&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=011ca2def8a7:ccd3:321e9807&RCN=79390
[*2] http://www.gnowsis.com/about/content/product
http://www.gnowsis.com/about/blog/2010/11/20/how-does-gnowsis-relate-nepomuk-and-others
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffuturezone.at%2Fdigitallife%2F993-refinder-das-naechste-level-des-hyperlinks.php&act=url
[*3] curl it to see why it doesn't work (sigh). and, why is it a 
non-transferable, non-renewable domain??

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