[Kde-pim] Contact aggregation

[Christian Mollekopf]

Hey Martin,

While I agree that the situation with Nepomuk is less then ideal right now 
regarding its maintenance, it would IMO be a very bad idea to abandon Nepomuk 
now. The KDE community has the unique chance to make the semantic desktop fly, 
with huge potential. The whole workspace seems  very committed to nepomuk and 
many other projects, such as PIM, are starting to  use it successfully. 
Therefore I believe that this community is capable of  maintaining Nepomuk, 
now that all the important parts are in place (with the addition of the dms). 
Nepomuk has come a long way to where it is today and I would find it very sad 
if people start jumping off now.

I think you now the potential yourself and what a waste it would be to not use 
that now. I can only say, the more people are using Nepomuk, the better the 
solution will be. I myself will certainly continue to improve nepomuk 
integration in PIM and Zanshin (after my exams that is =)

Only if projects start to really use it, it becomes more than an advanced 
desktop search/indexing service.

But even that aside I believe Nepomuk is a very good framework for what you 
want to achieve. Not only does it already provide some merging heuristics, but 
also is it one of it's core concepts to integrate with various applications 
(the semantic desktop). So the work is done once and can be used everywhere.

I really hope you'll help to strengthen Nepomuk, providing a whole new level 
of application integration =)

Cheers,
Christian

On Tuesday 03 January 2012 16.39:30 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I currently work on a contact library based on Nepomuk's PIMO:Person, which
> will later be foundation of KDE Telepathy's contact list and possibly new
> semantic KAddressBook. The more it's advancing, the more people are voicing
> their concerns about it. Some people are calling after using libfolks as
> the main KDE's contact aggregation solution, some wants to have completely
> different things and some wants to proceed with Nepomuk's PIMO:Person,
> which is imho really good, but has it's drawbacks and an uncertain future.
> 
> Therefore I'd like to ask the people who are the most capable to give
> advices in this regard - what do you think it's the best contact
> aggregation solution for KDE? What should we use in KDE Telepathy as an
> aggregation service? What would suit the PIM as the best? What could be
> used by other apps easily (eg. DigiKam and their face recognition, these
> can also be "contacts" and you should be able to contact them easily right
> from the app)?
> 
> Cheers!
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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