Moving Baloo and Baloo-widgets into KDE SC

[Àlex Fiestas]

On Friday 27 December 2013 13:43:50 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Divendres, 27 de desembre de 2013, a les 13:24:14, Vishesh Handa va
> 
> escriure:
> > On Wednesday 25 Dec 2013 23:43:20 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > The pim agent Messages.sh catalog name is wrong as discussed on IRC.
> > 
> > Fixed
> > 
> > > balooshow and baloosearch are missing Messages.sh
> > 
> > Fixed
> > 
> > > kio_tags is duplicated. What's the plan for it? Kill the old one? In
> > > that
> > > case, can the new one search tags created in nepomuk?
> > > 
> > > Same question for kio_timeline.
> > 
> > Kill both of them. Neither of them will be able to search through
> > information in Nepomuk. However, I do plan to write a simple application
> > to
> > migrate nepomuk tags, ratings and config settings into Baloo.
> > 
> > The only remaining Nepomuk bit in kde-runtime will be the kcm, which
> > should
> > be removed as well.
> > 
> > > I'm also concerned about what all the others are asking. In an ideal
> > > world
> > > the user should not care if he's using an app that uses baloo or uses
> > > nepomuk, since, as far as i understand, the "user exposed functionality"
> > > will be the same (even if the inner stuff is different), so if
> > > previously
> > > i
> > > did a tag somewhere and it showed somewhere else, i'd still expect this
> > > to
> > > work even if the stuff is using different "backends".
> > 
> > That's the plan. The user continues to tag files how they used to
> > previously.
> > 
> > > As far as I understand, that's virtually impossible, but then it leads
> > > to
> > > the question. What's the plan? Just port *all* of nepomuk uses over to
> > > baloo for 4.13? What about the uses in kde-workspace?
> > 
> > The most notable use cases of Nepomuk are -
> > 
> > 1. Dolphin - Nearly ported, needs more testing.
> > 2. KMail - 80% done. Tags will be stored directly in Akonadi. Same for
> > comments. So the only thing that had to be ported was searching.
> > 3. GwenView - It'll be a simple port
> > 
> > kde-workspace just has a runner and a dataengine. Both of those can be
> > provided by Baloo if required.
> > 
> > Activities - Will need to be ported. From my perspective it is a simple
> > port that can be done during the Plasma sprint.
> 
> What about the users of:
>  kamoso

We will kamoso to Baloo the moment it is in extragear.