Hi

I am wondering if there is any way to automatically enable/disable akonadi. So if i close all PIM applications akonadi will automatically disable. I know i could write a script but i am wondering if there is any built-in option in akonadi. I haven't found yet.

Thanks!

Calendar widget populates dates with events from akonadi calendar resource (since 4.7 or something). It will work without Akonadi, but from that point of view, Akonadi is needed as long as you use calendar widget. This is virtually every second you are using KDE Plasma.
To clarify things: I am talking about calendar that shows up when you click on default clock widget. There are bunch of clock widgets, so maybe other behave different.

I think writing a script that would stop Akonadi when none of certain processes is running will be much easier. I believe that KDE PIM apps will automatically start Akonadi if it is stopped, so you only have to worry about stopping it.

Thanks for info.
I have written a script and so far is working. For now i use script only for kmail and kalarm. I am annoyed by akonadi running when i don't use kmail or kalarm (these are only PIM apps i use) - akonadi uses 100 MB od RAM. If anyone interested, my script:

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while true; do
[[ $(ps -e | grep kmail) || $(ps -e | grep kalarm) ]]
if [[ "$?" != 0 ]]
then akonadictl stop
fi
sleep 60s
done


Minio wrote:Calendar widget populates dates with events from akonadi calendar resource (since 4.7 or something). It will work without Akonadi, but from that point of view, Akonadi is needed as long as you use calendar widget. This is virtually every second you are using KDE Plasma..

That's not correct. Uncheck "show events" in the calendar widget's configuration and it won't use Akonadi.

einar: yes. I forgot "default" part - it by default populates events from Akonadi calendar resource (if it exists, of course). You can turn it off. And, as I noted, it will work perfectly fine when Akonadi is stopped.
But anyway, thanks for correcting my mistake.

Actually the "default" is what upstream KDE supplies, some distros (openSUSE but likely others) put it to disabled by default (especially on live CDs).