4 questions on KMail/KAddressBook 4.4.4

[Kevin Kofler]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 3. Must I run mysqld on my laptop for KAddressBook?
> I'm presently running a MySQL server on my desktop.
> Can I use this?

Yes, Akonadi can be set up to use a remote MySQL server. (The Akonadi server 
itself, on the other hand, will always be local.) Just note that mysql-
server will still be dragged in by dependencies due to technical limitations 
of the RPM dependency system, it just won't be running locally.

> 4. I have two different System Settings icons in my f-menu:
> 
> a) A System Settings icon at the top level (with Development, Education,
> etc)
> 
> b) An entry at level 2 under Settings=>System Settings
> 
> Is this unusual?

Place a) is as part of the Favorites list, place b) is its location in the 
menu. Other "favorites" are also handled this way.

That said, upstream doesn't show System Settings in the Applications menu at 
all, but only in the Computer menu, and our current 4.5 RC2 packages now 
only retain the entry in the Computer section (because the patch which 
changed this got dropped). We need to decide whether we want to 
rebase/rewrite the patch or stick with the upstream default.

        Kevin Kofler