Talk:Akonadi

Misc

Akonadi is also the name of a goddess and oracle from Ghana. She is a goddess of justice and a guardian deity for women.Tham153 (talk) 16:43, 29 March 2008 (UTC) (Encyclopedia of Gods, Jordan, 1993)

Layman's Description

Comparison to Kaddressbook features? And is this meant to replace Kaddressbook, or work with it (plus add the calendar memory and other features)? Versions of KDE it's been included in, and how akonadi's implemented into each distro (default vs optional, etc)? From akonadi's page, seems like this might facilitate someone switching between Gnome and KDE? Lots of "software developer terminology," so can someone put this article more into "plain English" for us mere mortals? xD

Akonadi gets your PIM (email, address book, calendar, twitter, etc) data from servers and stores it, so that apps can use it. Most of the time you will use it through apps like Kaddressbook, which will not store their own data anymore but use Akonadi to do so. The separation of the storage/network parts of the apps from the GUI parts makes it easier for developers to implement some features and build new apps.

In regards to GNOME, you might be able to edit someone's address using KDE's tools, then have the modifications carry over to Evolution (pending Evolution starts using Akonadi). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.88.48.116 (talk) 08:23, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

As of now (KDE 4.2) it isn't integrated into many apps, and some distributions ship without it installed (although, it is available in a package for installation).

hmm they are going to replace KAddressBook in some capacity. --72.88.48.116 (talk) 08:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Stub

Should this article be marked as a stub?24.155.22.160 (talk) 02:39, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

You might be able to merge this article into a page talking about KDE4's backend daemons. --72.88.48.116 (talk) 08:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)