Collection View Split

Daniel Winter dw at danielwinter.de
Mon Jul 7 19:18:29 CEST 2008


On Monday 07 July 2008 17:32:18 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Ian Monroe wrote:
> > On a slightly-unrelated note: I think Amarok could perhaps have some
> > smarts regarding what to do with Nepomuk vs. Local Collection. Users
> > shouldn't have to understand the distinction. I would kind of want to
> > see how distros actually use Strigi and such, so this is something to
> > think about post-2.0 IMO.
>
> I'm interested to...it'd be interesting to know how much emphasis can be
> put on Nepomuk services, or if most distros are shipping with Strigi
> disabled by default.

Yes that is a problem. I do believe that with 4.1 most distros will ship with 
disabled strigi (it is kdes default). And most Distros (at the moment) only 
use the redland backend. That misses some features (SPARQL keyword optional 
for example) and is really slow. It is not really usable with Amarok.

Also for most other uses it is too slow. The distros really should ship the 
sesame2 backend. Maybe it would be best to disable redland build (in Soprano 
cmake) by default and enable it with a cmake option.. 

My idea is: Adding settings for local  collections. There one should be able 
to add or remove local collections. so (like Jeff said) multible local 
collections would be possible. Nepomuk collection would be disabled by default 
(at least for 2.0).

That would mean some new settings but with good defaults that should be no big 
problem. 

DanielW


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