Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 17 November 2012 07:00:27 Anne Wilson did opine:

> On 17/11/2012 09:16, Rafa Griman wrote:
> > Well Duncan, I agree with you in that there are two types of
> > people, that I _don't_ like the semantic desktop and I'm also a
> > Gentoo user (and Archer). But, IMHO, the devs could have made it
> > possible to deactivate the semantic desktop for those who don't
> > need/like it. I'm saying "could" and not should, IOW: not giving
> > orders, it's just MHO ;)
> 
> I think the problem is that you are wrong about this.  I think Akonadi
> has been so deeply coded in that it was not possible to have it
> deactivated and the applications still run.  Having two versions of
> applications to maintain is obviously overload on the developers.
> 
> Personally I'd be happier without it - but I much prefer optional
> things.  I like to organise my work as it suits me, so searching in
> that sense has no value to me.  The big dream, though, was to make
> information cross-application (which naturally means cross-platform
> too) for any application that finds the information useful.
> 
> Even that doesn't appeal to me, but looking at the number of facebook
> and twitter users, it probably would appeal to many.
> 
> Anne

While I OTOH, view sites like that as potential security leakage vectors.  
They want sign up info that IMO is none of their business.

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