Am Montag, 13. Februar 2012 schrieb /dev/ammo42:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:24:11 -0800 (PST)
>
> Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:
> > They could have (and still can) accomplished another coup by
> > redesigning the three backend technologies to be truly optional.
>
> I could be wrong but Akonadi's goal seems to be to simplify kdepim data
> storage by using a standard DB engine that "just works" instead of
> custom application-specific and mutually-incompatible DB-like code.
> If it works, everything's fine and we will benefit from advanced
> optimisations of SQL engines.
> And from my own experience it finally works in KDE 4.8.

Akonadi is a patch  for a major design flaw of KDE4, that by itself breaks 
KISS. E.g. how can I access a "akonadi DB" from commandline? 

Nik