Nepomuk

[O. Sinclair]

On 26/12/11 20:11, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> On 12/26/2011 11:09 AM, Tony Sivori wrote:
>> You might want to check out this Bug Tracker link "Annoyed by 'Nepomuk
>> Indexing Disabled' - Akonadi Agent message".
>>
>> While it contains little useful info, it does well illustrate the
>> poor attitude of a hopefully tiny minority of Nepomuk / Akonadi hackers.
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258171
>
> There seems to be a lot of confusion about all of this. Where can one
> find a good, detailed description of what exactly Nepomuk, Akonadi,
> Strigi, Virtuoso, Soprano,&c. are, how they are interrelated, and how
> they are used by KDE?
>

That is not nice reading (the bug report), at least not in my opinion. 
And a core problem here is that, as far as I know, there IS no source 
with the kind of information you ask for.

I am stubborn enough to use KDEPIM 4.7, or KDEPIM 2 if you so wish. 
After quite a few initial headaches it now works "almost as good" as the 
previous version. I have faith in the developers vision though I am 
quite uninterested in the "bling" of the semantic desktop et al.

Like many users I keep my files in some sort of systematic folders. My 
wife does not but has everything in a big "soup". But she does not tag, 
index or care for all that - she just does not care. I do not personally 
know anyone who actually tags, indexes or "star" their files.

To not make this a rant: a wiki with useful information of which part 
does what, how they are interconnected, what you can switch off and what 
functionality you then lose would really be helpful.

I have, once again, switched off Strigi as I have figured out that the 
"nepomukindexer" constantly reindexes files I do not touch and then eat 
CPU like I don't know what. I can use KFind to find files, it does a 
better job in my opinion. I need the Addressbook searching etc. in KMail 
so I have kept Nepomuk on. At least for now that seems to work without 
eating my laptop alive.

So to sum up - the Nepomukindexer seems to be "Strigi in disguise" as it 
disappears once you disable Strigi and Desktop Search.

Best regards and hope you all had a great Christmas,
Sinclair