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)?
  • Hund@feddit.nu
    6·
    2 hours ago

    And since I don’t even use most of the apps Akonadi is designed for, it is just wasting my CPU time and RAM space. That’s why I call it bloatware.

    You can’t just make up your own meanings of already established words and terms. That’s simply not how the world works.

    And if you don’t use it, why did you choose to install it in the first place?

    • pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.worksOP
      12·
      2 hours ago

      My definition matches the definition given in the Collins Dictionary. If you don’t consider this a serious source, just accept I may not be always aware of a precise meaning of a certain term.

      I did not choose to install Akonadi. It was preinstalled in Fedora KDE. I chose KDE for its extensive customization. Maybe I’m too old /j, but by choosing a DE I’m choosing just a DE. I couldn’t even think about how extensive an ecosystem around a DE could be. There are useful tools, like KDE Connect, which are meaningful to me and can be configured straightforwardly, but Akonadi is neither something I missed, nor it has an accessible configuration.

      • Hund@feddit.nu
        1·
        7 minutes ago

        My definition matches the definition given in the Collins Dictionary.

        I looked it up and found this:

        pre-installed computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements

        https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bloatware

        Is there another dictionary named Collins that you read?

        I did not choose to install Akonadi. It was preinstalled in Fedora KDE.

        It looks like you choose a Linux based operating system that seems to includes a fairly complete stack of the KDE suit.

        (I don’t know much about Fedora)

        I chose KDE for its extensive customization.

        I bet that Fedora have a minimal version without a graphical stack, which would let you to only install the Plasma desktop environment and the parts of the KDE suit you find relevant for you.

        And I’m sure that it’s possible to strip down a current setup with Fedora and the KDE suit as well.

        Maybe I’m too old /j, but by choosing a DE I’m choosing just a DE.

        That’s the issue here, you didn’t choose just a desktop environment (Plasma Desktop) you choose a, more or less, complete suit of software (KDE). :)

      • Micromot@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        38 minutes ago

        It is just something needed for synching calendar and contact information between KDE services, if you have no application that does this, akonadi is not started in the first place… The calendar events in the default panel clock is one of these and can be disabled in its settings as another commenter mentioned