Moving Baloo and Baloo-widgets into KDE SC

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Though not listed, plasma-mediacenter will move to baloo as soon as it gets
a stable release. This is also a great excuse for us to spend time in
fixing the tight coupling between our media collection logic and Nepomuk.


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> 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:
>  digikam
>  kphotoalbum
>  amarok
>  kamoso
>  kdenlive
>  rekonq
>  tellico
>  nepomuk-webminer
>  plasma-mobile
>  share-like-connect
> ?
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>



-- 
Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
http://www.shantanutushar.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20131231/d082b7f8/attachment.htm>