Comment 2 for bug 710968

Please feel free to report an upstream bug at http://bugs.kde.org to get plasma-netbook to grow a setting so that one can deactivate the contacts search (thus preventing akonadi from getting started). When such a setting becomes available I am all for deactivating the contacts runner by default making it opt-in thus ensuring a more lightweight default netbook experience.

Technical note: the contacts search is powered by the same underlying technology as krunner (ALT+F2) so it is perfectly reasonable to activate/deactivate certain abilities.

Arguably upstream should altogether not use the contacts runner by default, given that it will fire up akonadi at login, slowing down that and having akonadi around at the off chance of it being useful because someone actually tries to search for a contact in the search&launch page which seems rather unlikely given that there is absolutely no affordance for that behavior.