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)?
  • Mordikan@kbin.earth
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    1 day 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.