I have just heard about akonadi and found this impressive.

If I have understood well, akonadi becomes the main server for all personal information. It will handle mails soon, contacts,... So here are my questions :

- When it will be ready for Kmail, akonadi will be the one fetching the mail and then kmail asking akonadi for news ?
- Is akregator supported ?
- How do we know if an application is using akonadi instead of internal management ? Can we choose this ? (For example when kmail will support this, will we just have to decide which akonadi server to use and setup imap in akonadi ?)
- I don't understand why when we add a new ressource we need to select the ressource file of an application (shouldn't the application connect itself to akonadi ?)
- As of now I know my address book is working with akonadi. How can I check data in the mysql database (I use external server), currently I only see UIDS understood

Thanks a lot, all this seems confusing to me but promising.

PS : if you have a website with howtos or news about akonadi it would be great.

Thanks

A version of KDE PIM for KDE 4.5 will be shipping hopefully sometime this year which will switch KMail to Akonadi.

The usage of Akonadi is seamless to the user ideally, and no setup with it needs to be done. The application will offer configuration for the resources it uses ( IMAP/POP/SMTP in KMail for instance ) and will instruct Akonadi to make the needed changes.

Akonadi servers are run on a per-user and per-host basis ( meaning that each user on each machine runs it seperately )

Some distros are offering previews of this new version, but if you see this, please remember that this is a beta version - not yet even a release-candidate, so there are definitely going to be some problems. The developers have made it quite clear that they do not consider it ready for general use at this point.

Guilo wrote:- When it will be ready for Kmail, akonadi will be the one fetching the mail and then kmail asking akonadi for news ?

This is in a extended beta phase, i.e. it is fully implemented but doesn't work as good as we want it to.
So this unfortunately means that no concrete date has been set yet.

Guilo wrote:- Is akregator supported ?

Not yet. This is being worked on in a branch but I don't know how close it is to completion.

Guilo wrote:- How do we know if an application is using akonadi instead of internal management ?

Hard to tell from a user level, basically depends on which version is being used.
It also depends on the type of data, e.g. most applications from KDE PIM already use Akonadi for contacts but not for their main data type (e.g. email in KMail).

Guilo wrote:Can we choose this ? (For example when kmail will support this, will we just have to decide which akonadi server to use and setup imap in akonadi ?)

This will be taken care of by a conversion/import tool.
The Akonadi using version of KMail will have the Akonadi resource setup embedded, so from the user point of view it will be very similar to the current version when setting up accounts.

Guilo wrote:- I don't understand why when we add a new ressource we need to select the ressource file of an application (shouldn't the application connect itself to akonadi ?)

I am afraid I don't understand this question. Maybe you could give me an example?

Cheers,
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