mattydee wrote:

Alec wrote:So for anyone complaining, yeah, KDE 3.5 did get fast and stable (after 3 years of feature-freeze), but it's not like it was always like that. Quit complaining.

That's precisely it. KDE4 is now like KDE3 was in the old days. So in a sense, from a user perspective, a regression.

No, it's called "Progress"

Alec wrote:

mattydee wrote:

Alec wrote:So for anyone complaining, yeah, KDE 3.5 did get fast and stable (after 3 years of feature-freeze), but it's not like it was always like that. Quit complaining.

That's precisely it. KDE4 is now like KDE3 was in the old days. So in a sense, from a user perspective, a regression.

No, it's called "Progress"

Ok thank you. We shall now enjoy KDE4. War is Peace.

mattydee wrote:However, as simple user, the difference is that EDS starts quietly in the background and seems to use very little resources. I wouldn't even notice it was there if I didn't check the system monitor. Akonadi on the other hand, hits you like a freight train, and doesn't start properly half the time.

Yes, quite unfortunate. The initial plan, as far as I know, was to use MySQL/Embedded, but there were issues which prevented that solution.
Using MySQL directly (or alernatively Postgres in the next release) got at least the functional requirements going. Its a pity that starting it seems to be such a fragile thing (almost all startup problems of Akonadi server are related with the MySQL startup).

I am pretty sure that this is not the final take on this, i.e. as soon as something more "compact" is available it will become the default.

Cheers,
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mattydee wrote:However, as simple user, the difference is that EDS starts quietly in the background and seems to use very little resources. I wouldn't even notice it was there if I didn't check the system monitor. Akonadi on the other hand, hits you like a freight train, and doesn't start properly half the time.

Just out of curiosity...how much of the resources do EDS take?

Kryten2X4B wrote:

mattydee wrote:However, as simple user, the difference is that EDS starts quietly in the background and seems to use very little resources. I wouldn't even notice it was there if I didn't check the system monitor. Akonadi on the other hand, hits you like a freight train, and doesn't start properly half the time.

Just out of curiosity...how much of the resources do EDS take?

Hmm... Not sure... I will get back to you on that since I am not using Gnome at the moment.