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by fafner
4111 days ago
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Akonadi really annoys me. Who thought it would be a good idea to run mysql on each desktop to store email metadata? That's just ridiculous bloat. Mysql is among the top 10 entries for me in powertop. Why would MySQL be needed to deal with the metadata? All other mail applications seem to do fine with Maildir and an index. And in case anybody thought that using MySQL would allow them to scale (you know because people receiving a million mails/s is such a common use case) then the answer is no! Thanks to Nepomuk many operations were bound by the RDF triple store they used. Maybe it has improved now thanks to Baloo. But once I tried to delete a folder containing a mailing list with a few thousand mails and I wondered why my laptop got so hot until I realised that Nepomuk was struggling. Maybe the situation has improved now though. But the whole KMail transition was really painful for no tangible benefits to the user. This really feels like a prime example of overengineering. |
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That's how I felt about most of KDE4.