[Digikam-devel] Digikam and Nepomuk

[Veaceslav Munteanu]

Marcel, and everybody else, keep Vishesh in cc, he is Baloo project
manager and he wants to follow our discussion.

And yet, the biggest problem is a service to keep database and files in sync.

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de> wrote:
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>
> "The majority of Nepomuk applications just rely on tags, ratings and comments.
> Baloo offers a simple asynchronous API for modifying that file metadata."
>
> These are also the use scenarios which we had. (I believe faces are not
> implemented?)
>
>
> "This metadata is now stored with the extended attributes of the file instead
> of storing it in a separate database."
>
> If this refers to operating system level extended attributes, I will be
> interested to see how size limitations and cross-platform issues may be
> solved.
>
> In any case, if a technology is born in academia and after years of
> development by different, talented people cannot be brought to performance in
> real code, it seems to be a wise decision to change the fundamental design
> while keeping the higher-level API.
>
> Marcel
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