Collection View Split

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Daniel Winter <dw at danielwinter.de> wrote:
> 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).

There's no reason for Nepomuk to be disabled by default. If Nepomuk
exists and has some music: load it. If not, don't.

Ian