Why the hell do I constantly have problems with KDE Plasma and that piece of crap Akonadi???? Constant error messages, crashes, etc. whenever I try to connect to a calendar! It doesn't matter at all whether I try the Nextcloud Calendar, iCloud Calendar, or Google Calendar. And when I remove an online calendar, everything freezes—the entire KDE desktop. I’ve had this problem for years, no matter which version of KDE I use. I never have these kinds of problems with GNOME or GNOME Calendar. Akonadi is just a piece of software crap. 💩

#linux #opensource #freesoftware #kde #akonadi

Gnome? Ci ho provato, ma torno a KDE Plasma https://salvatorenoschese.it/gnome-ci-ho-provato-ma-torno-a-kde-plasma/

#kde #gnome #kiogdrive #akonadi #plasma

I am a long-term #KDEPIM user and recently read that due to progress in #SQLite’s performance #Akonadi is now defaulting to that DB on a fresh install.

A few days ago I took the chance and ran `akonadi-db-migrator --newengine sqlite` and it was both painless and I definitely see both lower resource consumption and the PIM suite seems much snappier too!

#KDE #Plasma #Kontact #KMail #KOrganizer #Zanshin

Retrying KMail after a lot of time (only some months):

I don't know if this has anything with the fact that this time I preemptively switched Akonadi's DB from MariaDB to SQLite because the last time I tried literally nothing worked explicitly because of an obscure MariaDB shenanigan that I wasn't able to work around at all…

But this time everything worked first try? It's usable? It's actually nice to use? KMail is doing a good job, Merkuro calendar is also doing a good job, that's good?

It's literally the very first time I'm having a good experience with anything that interacts with Akonadi even with a stick in 18 years of Linux. That's cool!

#KMail #Akonadi #KDE

Either I am going crazy, or akonadi_imap_resource on Debian 13 requires NetworkManager to be running, and if it is not running it crashes with "invalid nullptr parameter".

Because you know, that kind of hard dependency would make perfect sense, right?

#KDE #Kmail #Akonadi #Debian

ProcessControl: Application "/usr/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent" stopped unexpectedly ( "Process crashed" )

rocessControl: Application "/usr/bin/akonadi_sendlater_agent" stopped unexpectedly ( "Process crashed"

Application '/usr/bin/akonadi_imap_resource' crashed too often. Giving up!

A decade and a half after the first release, #Akonadi remains unusable.

Got pissed off by KMail today, because it stopped sending mails - they just sit there in an outgoing queue and the only way to send them is to restart everything of Akonadi (I already hate Akonadi and I want it to burn to the ground, but this...).

So, starting to evaluate meli to replace all that crap. It's kinda rough, but it works.

Not sure that I'm ready to go mutt/neomutt right away, but we shall see.

#Linux #Email #KDE #Akonadi #Meli

@Pabarino wrote about the progress on making the migration service of Merkuro more efficient and not running contently in the background when not using it:

https://pabloarino.com/p/weeks-7-13-on-merkuro-gsoc-2025/

#kde #merkuro #akonadi