[Kde-silk] selkie

[Sebastian Kügler]

(Forwarding a discussion I had with Peter in private email, it's interesting for 
general consumption as well)

On Saturday 22 May 2010 19:08:06 Peter Schiffer wrote:
> On 05/22/2010 03:34 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 May 2010 00:23:40 Peter Schiffer wrote:
> >>> Thanks, and likewise :-) I really enjoyed reading your blog and
> >>> watching the screencast. BTW, the use case to manually enter the
> >>> geolocation is actually to check something in a place you're planning
> >>> to go. Happens quite regularly to me, e.g. on a train, to find out
> >>> about connecting trains before arrival, or weather information at my
> >>> destination.
> >>> 
> >>> Cheers,
> >> 
> >> I'm glad you enjoyed my blog. Checking for trip destination is another
> >> use case for manual location setting I didn't mention on my blog. It can
> >> be quite handy as you said.
> > 
> > Maybe we can use Akonadi in between the dataengine and libgeoweb, it
> > provides access to network resources and offers caching, synching, etc.
> > If we can add offline capabilities to libgeoweb this way, that'd simply
> > rock the boat. (Think of roaming, you pre-load all kinds of information
> > (routes, interesting restaurants, maps, train schedules, etc) onto your
> > device before you leave, at home, where bandwidth is free (or
> > comparatively cheap), then you travel abroad and don't need to get
> > expensive roaming access for a couple of handy things you don't want to
> > miss -- compelling.
> > 
> > Akonadi is data agnostic, so it can deal with any kind of data, not just
> > PIM information, and it's being readied for mobile usecases as well.
> > 
> > I have a vague memory that there's a GSoC Project going on right now that
> > basically provides transparant caching to dataengines, using akonadi.
> > That might be interesting to keep an eye one.
> > 
> > That said, I just returned from a business trip a couple of hours ago,
> > and haven't had the time to actually try all your cool stuff. I'll have
> > some spare cycles this weekend though, I'll give it a whirl. I'm quite
> > curious now. :)
> 
> Akonadi looks like good idea as caching could be more than welcome. I'll
> try to check it out.
> 
> >> I am planning to make something like
> >> location profiles, where you can set multiple places and easily switch
> >> between them. (e.g. work, school, home..). Later, switching can be
> >> automatic, lets say according to you IP or wifi network actually
> >> connected to.. But that is quite a future for now... :)
> > 
> > You're not alone. In fact, in KDE 4.5 we have the first bits of the
> > semantic activities which would use Nepomuk to store, connect and
> > interleave those profiles. It's a bit late to go into details there
> > right now though, but the basic stuff entered trunk and is available
> > now, 4.5 material. I think this is the thing these profiles should be
> > built on, as it all has a lot to do with "context" (as vague as that may
> > sound).
> 
> That sounds great. I can try to use Nepomuk as well.
> 
> > Btw, this discussion should really be available to others, mind if I
> > forward and CC: kde-silk at kde.org?
> 
> Not at all, this should be on mailing list.

Okay, added to CC: :-)
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sebas

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