So my KDE 4.2 keeps crashing at irregular intervals and a new login provides me with nowt but default settings :P

To the rescue Akonadi. I've installed mysql and got it to run thanks to Arch wiki - so far I have managed to get akonadi to work with

- kalendar
- kaddressbook

That is clearly not enough. I also want it to administer

- email settings
- email folders
- akregator
- kopete

Firstly, when I want to configure akonadi and click on "add" resource some icons are greyed out while others are displayed in colour - any reason for this?

Secondly, I cannot find a kopete icon.

Thirdly, when I click on Maildir (grey) and I enter the path to my kmail folder I get an error message.

Basically, has anybody managed to get the above to work with akonadi? If so, how?

Many thanks in advance for any hints!

At this point in time, it may be better to use Maliody if you want an Akonadi integrated Mail client.

bcooksley wrote:At this point in time, it may be better to use Maliody if you want an Akonadi integrated Mail client.

Perhaps I'll wait in that case. Changing a mail client is a big thing... But thanks for your advice

toad wrote:To the rescue Akonadi. I've installed mysql and got it to run thanks to Arch wiki - so far I have managed to get akonadi to work with

- kalendar
- kaddressbook

Nice

toad wrote:That is clearly not enough. I also want it to administer

- email settings
- email folders
- akregator
- kopete

That's the general idea, but unfortunately all good things take some time.

toad wrote:Firstly, when I want to configure akonadi and click on "add" resource some icons are greyed out while others are displayed in colour - any reason for this?

Not that I am aware of. Can you give an example of a "greyed out" one?

toad wrote:Secondly, I cannot find a kopete icon.

There is no support for Kopete or other chat logs yet.

toad wrote:Thirdly, when I click on Maildir (grey) and I enter the path to my kmail folder I get an error message.

Maildir doesn't mean KMail directory structure, just maildir.
It should be able to handle any of the maildir folders in a KMail directory tree though, but I would advise against writing to their files if KMail is running as well.

toad wrote:Basically, has anybody managed to get the above to work with akonadi?

Probably not when not counting experimental or in-development software.

But I think that Akonadi generally has the chance to increase the development resources available for PIM stuff, since certain task become easier and developers can concentrate on certain aspects, one at a time.

Cheers,
_

Can you give an example of a "greyed out" one?

On second inspection it may just be that the icons themselves have no colour... Just to make sure here a screenshot.



Thanks for your response. From what I understand Akonadi is going to be the be all and end all to all problems relating to pim files scattered throughout the file system. Taking your pim info from computer a to computer b should be a doddle once Akonadi has been properly implemented. I am looking forward to it

toad wrote:

Can you give an example of a "greyed out" one?

On second inspection it may just be that the icons themselves have no colour... Just to make sure here a screenshot.

Right, they just look like that

toad wrote:Thanks for your response. From what I understand Akonadi is going to be the be all and end all to all problems relating to pim files scattered throughout the file system.

I guess I better clarify that.
One can still have all files scattered across the file system, but Akonadi makes all their data (and those on servers, etc) accessible through one single point of entry.

In other words application developers don't have to care about where the data is actually stored, they can operate on it regardless of where and how it is stored persistantly.

Cheers,
_