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<p>Am 2015-08-01 22:08, schrieb Stefan Derkits:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">well but if I only store it in Baloo then music players, assuming they<br /> follow the freedesktop specification, that don't use baloo would not be<br /> able to read the ratings.<br /><br /></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span class="sig">if it is stored in the extended file attributes (which baloo uses, or used) then every application can read that informations and it makes no sense which technology is used.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span class="sig">If you use eg Dolphin for file browsing, you have the option to rate files and see the ratings, so if you rate a file in the music application and when you browse your files, this rating is not shown, a user can be confused.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Also the "semantic" information is relevant for activities I think. Eg It makes a difference to which music I am listing if I am coding, or if I am just relaxing. So integrating the music player with the activities system also makes sense.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">The other point is a markenting point I think: you can show a friend your Plasma desktop and tell him "look all informations are shared system across, can your Windows system do the same?"</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span class="sig">BTW: I love this discussion :-), many views on a product are important to get really great software ;-)</span></div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span class="sig">-- <br /> Mit freundlichen Grüßen<br /> Ing. Konrad Renner</span></div>
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