Just upgraded to SC 4.4 beta 1 (or more accurately, version 4.3.81). It mostly works great - a couple of minor things I will file bugs against soon-ish. To be expected when it's a beta after all.

However, I wonder about the akonadi/kontact/nepomuk integration. Right now Kontact tries to start the akonadi server every time I launch it but I also get an error-message claiming that "Nepomuk search service uses inappropiate backend" followed by:

"The Nepomuk search service uses the 'virtuosobackend' backend, which is not recommended for use with Akonadi."

What I wonder is...does anyone know if this is temporary and if it's supposed to work once 4.4 goes final?

It should be gone - I don't receive that message in trunk and I'm using virtuoso. IIRC, only the Redland backend is blacklisted in akonadi.

Thanks for reporting this, we seem to have missed a check when Nepomuk switched its recommendation for Virtuoso.

Cheers,
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anda_skoa wrote:Thanks for reporting this, we seem to have missed a check when Nepomuk switched its recommendation for Virtuoso.
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If you can call it a reporting...to be honest, I was unsure if virtuoso was officially supported or not which is why I felt the forum was a better place than b.k.o. Do you want me to file a "official" bug-report as well?

Another question if you don't mind. Shouldn't akonadi start at login rather than when I start kontact? To me it seems like it should so it's always available no matter which program is trying to access its resources. Sure, other programs can also try to start akonadi on its own but that introduces a certain lag.

Kryten2X4B wrote:If you can call it a reporting...to be honest, I was unsure if virtuoso was officially supported or not which is why I felt the forum was a better place than b.k.o. Do you want me to file a "official" bug-report as well?

No. Have already fixed it. Waiting for confirmation that I can commit (it requires a string change).

Kryten2X4B wrote:Another question if you don't mind. Shouldn't akonadi start at login rather than when I start kontact? To me it seems like it should so it's always available no matter which program is trying to access its resources. Sure, other programs can also try to start akonadi on its own but that introduces a certain lag.

Currently it only starts on demand, i.e. when applications which need it request its startup.
My guess that somebody will add an autostart option once we have KMail using it, since mail is the data type where always running makes most sense.

Cheers,
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