Removing Akonadi (aka, leaving a clean KDE desktop)

alexandernst · 2011-02-20 20:57:48

I don't use KMail, KOrganizer, file/folder puntuation/comments nor anything that would require Akonadi, or any kind of storage system, so I'm just wasting X mb of my RAM in something that I'm just not using, and that I don't want running on my system.
Is there any way to remove Akonadi?
I tried -R akonadi, but it depends on kdepimlibs, and those depend on kdebase-workspace, so basically I can't remove a simple thing like Akonadi without removing my entire KDE desktop.

Regards

Teho · 2011-02-20 21:04:15

Akonadi is started only on demand, so just don't start anything that needs it and remove all the resources from system settings - clock needs akonadi so remember that.

alexandernst · 2011-02-20 21:07:55

But why the hell a simple clock would need Akonadi? That's insane :s
Anyways, can I make it stop using Akonadi?

Teho · 2011-02-20 21:11:37

Well you would need to find a new clock, the default one doesn't support turning it off. The reason why it depends on Akonadi is that it can show calendar entries.

alexandernst · 2011-02-20 21:39:10

Maybe it's time to suggest to the KDE team to make that "dependancy" optional?

attila · 2011-02-20 22:15:53

alexandernst wrote:

Maybe it's time to suggest to the KDE team to make that "dependancy" optional?

It is not the KDE team because opensuse at example splits akonadi in a runtime, lib and devel package. Without any kdepim package you can uninstall the akonadi runtime and therefore you don't have anymore of this /usr/bin/akonadi* apps.

I do the same with the original akonadi package from archlinux by removing the files:

...
make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
# remove files
cd $pkgdir
rm -r usr/bin
rm -r usr/lib/qt4
rm -r usr/share/config
rm -r usr/share/dbus-1/services
rm -r usr/share/mime
}

And yes, i don't like the akonadi server too.

Xabre · 2011-02-21 10:50:26

I've got a feeling that it's not that most people don't like Akonadi: it's more that they mostly don't like how it works right now.
Personally, I think it is a promising technology that has yet to be proven usefull.

Anyway, .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc

[QMYSQL]
Name=akonadi
......
StartServer=false

solved it for me.

Just remember that you'll have to search for a KDEPIM alternative in this case, as all (most of) KDEPIM apps now have a hard dependancy on Akonadi, and they just won't work without it.

(Off: we really do need a lightweight kde/qt e-mail client, some people just want to send e-mails, you know )

Last edited by Xabre (2011-02-21 10:52:13)

SanskritFritz · 2011-02-21 13:27:19

Xabre wrote:

Anyway, .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc
[QMYSQL]
Name=akonadi
......
StartServer=false

Thanks for that valuable advice.

Teho · 2011-02-22 11:49:18

Xabre wrote:

(Off: we really do need a lightweight kde/qt e-mail client, some people just want to send e-mails, you know )

Something like this http://trojita.flaska.net/ perhaps? It was mentioned on planet KDE a while back.

Xabre · 2011-02-22 16:08:15

Teho wrote:

Xabre wrote:
(Off: we really do need a lightweight kde/qt e-mail client, some people just want to send e-mails, you know )
Something like this http://trojita.flaska.net/ perhaps? It was mentioned on planet KDE a while back.

Yes, thanks, I've already tried it, and though it seems very promising, it's far too unstable for a productive usage atm. It looks very much like Sylpheed, which I'm currently using, so I would really like to see this develop further to reach a stability minimum (don't get me wrong, I'm a [testing] user, so a few bugs here and there is not an issue, but this one is just a little bit over the edge).

wojtek · 2011-09-12 12:02:52

attila wrote:

alexandernst wrote:
Maybe it's time to suggest to the KDE team to make that "dependancy" optional?
It is not the KDE team because opensuse at example splits akonadi in a runtime, lib and devel package. Without any kdepim package you can uninstall the akonadi runtime and therefore you don't have anymore of this /usr/bin/akonadi* apps.

Apologies for bumping relatively old thread but the original question (why forcing kdepim dependency for kdebase-workspace) hasn't been answered. I would love to have quite slim KDE installation (KISS) and having to install and then update packages that I don't need nor use is silly at best.

eticre · 2011-10-25 21:49:19

thanks now my arch-kde is cleared from this zombie-invasion-program and iotop output is excellent without disk io.
imho i hope that kde developers kill this beast before they eat all world desktop available resource

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#1 2011-02-20 20:57:48

Removing Akonadi (aka, leaving a clean KDE desktop)

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