I’ve discovered Akonadi, a KDE service. As far as I could understand, Akonadi provides “personal information management” and is responsible for some interaction between apps within the KDE ecosystem. To me, it seems to be bloatware. Somebody may use the functions it provides, but I do not. It is just running in background all the time with no use.

  1. How do I completely disable it forever?
  2. Have you ever met something else in Linux or it’s ecosystem, that appeared to be bloatware to you (and how did you disable it)?
  • pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.worksOP
    01·
    17 days ago

    Modern DE ≠ unnecessary metadata-collecting services which you can not control within the DE interface. I do not want a “minimal” environment, I want one that looks pretty and is adjusted straightforwardly. Background metadata syncing has nothing to do with graphical environment. I understand that KDE is a whole ecosystem, but a service like this, shipping together with the DE, unreachable through normal settings interface is not what I’m expecting from a DE. Especially from such a modern and featurefull one. If I wanted to manage my DE with text configs, I would go for hyprland or something like this. It’s the issue with KDE that it doesn’t implement accessible configuration options for certain components. Hereby I’m not saying that KDE is totally bad. My main complaint isn’t the existence of Akonadi by itself, some people I’ll hardly ever meet in person would find its functionality extremely useful for a reason. But the fact it is uncontrollable with any KDE settings is dissapointing.

    The actual magic of Linux here is that I can still find a text config and disable anything I don’t need there. Without ditching a whole DE because of a couple of things I don’t like.

    PS. I have never been on reddit.

    • Mordikan@kbin.earth
      1·
      17 days ago

      So, really the issue is you expect KDE to present it in UI which is not the case. You would have to use the control binary to stop it from running (akonadictl stop). To prevent it from running in the future, you’d have to edit/create it’s configuration in $HOME/.config and add something like StartServer=false to [General].

      There is no way to do this in the UI. Akonadi itself isn’t bloatware though. It’s an important component that lets “desktop” applications access PIM. It can be a resource hog, but that’s not the same. It serves a valid role. So long as you aren’t using Kalendar, Kmail, etc, just remove it.

    • Hund@feddit.nu
      0·
      17 days ago

      It’s using your data locally on your machine. If you don’t trust one of the biggest open source projects in the community, perhaps computers is not your thing. :D

      • pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.worksOP
        01·
        17 days ago

        I do not need this particular feature anyway. Neither locally, nor in a cloud. But I’m not given the opportunity to know about it and turn it down straightforwardly. It works silently, it can be only discovered via process monitor, and the only way to turn it down is digging into the terminal, as if I didn’t have a graphical environment suite from one of the biggest open source projects in Linux community installed.

        • Hund@feddit.nu
          1·
          17 days ago

          That’s the downside (or upside, depending on how you look at things) of choosing a kitchen-sink distro. You get served everything and you don’t have to care or know about anything.

          However. Since you seem to be more of a power-user than a casual user, perhaps you didn’t made the best choice for yourself. Perhaps building your own setup based on a bare-bones Fedora installation would have been a better fit for you? :)