dexter11 Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 On the occasion of aKademy 2007, the annual conference of KDE developers and users, Mandriva is proud to announce together with the NEPOMUK partners and the KDE community that the NEPOMUK-KDE project it leads is poised to deliver a sea change in the Linux desktop experience. Read more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Meh? In english... it seems that it allows you to tag, comment and rate files. So the idea is adding metadata to a file. Which isnt a new concept, see extended attributes, though they've chucked a gui in front of it. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 The video shows the tagging / rating part, but doesn't show the other end - the searching / viewing based on tags / ratings. That's the bit not well explained - what you can then do with these tags. I guess they envisage a view like digikam's folders of tags (which are very cool, imho!) but maybe they've not got that far yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 yeah, I tried to write about what NEPOMUK actually *does* in more understandable language in the OS News, Digg and Mandriva blog versions of the story =) see http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/07/05/mandri...-kde-4-desktop/ . This is only one part of the project, but it's pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 One question - is the extra information about the tags and ratings stored in the file itself, or in an external Nepomuk database file? The external database is obviously the easiest way to implement that kind of thing, but it can be easily fooled by common operations such as moving or renaming a file - then it tends to completely lose track of all the tags you carefully entered! Ok, two questions then - is the resulting information then only available to KDE applications? Or only to Nepomuk-aware KDE applications? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Ok, two questions then - is the resulting information then only available to KDE applications? Or only to Nepomuk-aware KDE applications? and on that, what are it's dependencies? A google shows its included in kdelibs, which is a real disappointment as it seems to be a step toward more intelligent file management. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Nepomuk is a broad project. What we're really talking about here is Nepomuk-KDE , which is the project to integrate Nepomuk into KDE. There could certainly be a Nepomuk-GNOME , etc. I don't know if there are any definite plans in that direction, but the project was designed with it in mind. I'm not sure how the metainformation is stored. You could ask on the mailing list, I guess - https://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/wws/info/nepomuk-kde . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 The other week I incendently stumbled upon the fact Johann Nepomuk was Hitlers great grandfather from his mothers side and possible also his grandfather from hid fathers side. I also found its a czech saint and town but still wonder wether Nepomuk is the best name, I think the Hitler link is pretty far-fetched but maybe others will not think so... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Nepomuk_Hiedler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 its a name, like it matters. It's also in uppercase everywhere, maybe its an acronym. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 its a name, like it matters. It's also in uppercase everywhere, maybe its an acronym. I feel like this too but there are people out there who will always find a stick... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 well, I've seen you mention it in two places now and no-one has said anything but "uh, so what?" :) it is an acronym, of course (it's an EU-funded project: regulations state that the name must be a hilariously forced acronym. I joke. somewhat.) It stands for: Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge. so now you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 I think this article answers some questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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