Akonadi – still alive and rocking

At his blog, Daniel Vritil provides an extensive update on the status of Akonadi, the KDE project's personal information management (PIM) data service. He focuses on the changes made during the port to KDE Frameworks 5, starting with the switch from a text-based to a binary protocol. "This means we spent almost zero time on serialization and we are able to transmit large chunks of data between the server and the applications very, very efficiently." The ripple effects include changes to the database operations and, eventually, to the public API. Finally, he addresses the disappearance of the KJots note-taking application. "What we did not realize back then was that we will effectively prevent people from accessing their notes, since we don't have any other app for that! I apologize for that to all our users, and to restore the balance in the Force I decided to bring KJots back. Not as a part of the main KDE PIM suite but as a standalone app."