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