akonadi pim

[theotheroracle]

would you consider adding support for an akondi pim daemon for apps like kmail ? when i try to open kmail i'm just getting an issue about the akondi pim deamon not running, and it won't start when i click the run button, i know this is probably a misconfiguration on my part, but having support for this could make setting this up a lot easier 🙏

[magnouvean]

I would welcome having a module for this but sadly I don't use kmail or any desktop mail client for that matter, so I can't really implement it as I have no way of testing. I welcome prs though. If it involves just writing some entries into config-files I think using a lower-level interface is fine for this as it is quite specific use-case.

[ede1998]

I'm also interested in this, particularly for having my calendar entries from caldav shown in the KDE calendar widget.

Also, I had some trouble finding this issue as there is a typo in the title. The software is called akonadi. Can the issue be renamed?

[theotheroracle]

i've got akonadi working in my nix config now, i added kdePackages.akonadi and kdePackages.akonadi-import-wizard, and that seems to be working, i have kmail working at least, having an option to enable those two packages shouldn't be too hard if that's something that's in scope for this project

[magnouvean]

Having an option for installing those two packages would indeed be be very easy, but if we were to actually include a separate module for this we should probably do something more than just install those packages. With that said, if what you've done works there may not be much of a need for a module for this.

[ede1998]

Personally, I've been trying to configure akonadi declaratively. But it turned out to be a bit hard, so I skipped it for now. Akonadi seems to store most configuration in sql databases mixed with some rc files. Is there a comparable program that already has a module available in plasma-manager?

[magnouvean]

That sounds like something I personally would have non-declarative, but I know others want to have as much declarative as possible. Anyway, there's no similar program in plasma-manager atm, but if it makes sense we could consider adding it.

[ede1998]

Thanks for the info. That's fine with me. Maybe I'll have a look at it when I find time in the future. As mentioned, it's not super important for me but would be nice to have (in order to be able to bootstrap a new install with just a single command and have everything readily configured).