Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

160712 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 Jul 2016 20:06:05 Jens Reinemuth wrote:
>> KDE 5 is usable iff you dont use kdepim/akonadi with mailing lists ... 
>> As soon as my count of Mails grow over some thousands,
>> Akonadi simply stops working, ie is no longer fetching or displaying Mail.
>> The desktop is cool and stable pim is not really since some versions ago.
> I don't use the full plasma desktop, but use KDEPIM and some other KDE apps 
> with all their unavoidable dependencies. It is usable for me,
> on two machines where akonadi is running on MySQL
> and on my laptop with PostgreSQL.  I use Enlightenment as my day to day DE
> and Fluxbox as a fall back.  Having to install some parts of Plasma
> does not mean you have to use it as your desktop.

I'm quite satisfied with Fluxbox & have no intention of using KDE desktop.

> You need some CPU horsepower and patience
> to let Akonadi index all messages in the database.
> If your PC is resource constrained,
> it'll have trouble managing large mail boxes.
> I remember a Pentium Duo with 4G RAM taking overnight to update mailboxes,
> which in their totality contained more than 125,000 messages.
> When I repeated the exercise with < 5000 messages, the response
> was much more reasonable : it took a few minutes, rather than hours.

I've been a contented user of Mutt since 1998, so that's no problem.

BTW Whatever is the point of keeping  125 K  mail messages ?
-- at  1 min each , it would take  90 days  to read them (without sleep).

As for desktop indexing, it's simply an overweight tool
for those too lazy to keep their directories + files in proper order (smile).
It seems to have been invented to try to help users of proprietary systems
which make it difficult to keep track of anything for long.

Anyone else have comments on using KDE 5 ? -- thanks so far.

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