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I think you're thinking of "Akonadi", a service used for calendars, contacts, emails, RSS etc. It famously originally came with a MySQL server dependency (thoug
by milliams 3y ago
I think you're thinking of "Akonadi", a service used for calendars, contacts, emails, RSS etc. It famously originally came with a MySQL server dependency (though I think that it might now work with SQLite).
- jraph 3y agoI just checked, Akonadi still uses MySQL on Plasma 6. But you can probably disable it (in settings > background services > Account manager (translated from French so possibly not accurate)) if you don't use any PIM feature of KDE (contacts, mails). Now, it's quite idle, so one wouldn't need to worry about it I think. Baloo, Nepomuk's successor, has also improved a lot and file indexing can be disabled, or folders excluded from indexing. And I agree about Plasma being lightweight: that's what I run on a 12 year old tablet which has 1GB of RAM because it has been the only touch-friendly DE that was lightweight enough for years. Now, we have Plasma mobile and Phosh that might do the job better.
- DEADMINCE 3y agoRequiring MySQL for a desktop service running in the background honestly seems crazy to me.
- jraph 3y agoApparently one can switch databases and use PostgreSQL or SQLite instead. Not sure why SQLite is not the default. Maybe they expect several applications to write to the DB concurrently and expect that SQLite might cause perf issues. Though there's nothing in the doc about this.
- redeeman 3y agothey used mysql embedded... many softwares on windows uses sql server embedded, for just specific applications
- kaba0 3y agoWhy? I mean, if there is a single, even slightly heavy db running for a desktop environment that would seem fine. Of course each service having its own is an overkill.