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

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2012-11-17, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> With all the hassles added by Akonadi and Nepomuk and Strigi for some
> higher "social/semantic desktop" purpose, does anyone actually _use_ the
> stuff?

Ok, this is basically the second part of [1] 
Similar to how Strigi is tasked with providing meta data in a uniform way 
across a wide spectrum of file formats, Akonadi is tasked with providing data 
access in a uniform way across a wide spectrum of data storage formats and 
locations.

Also similar to Strigi, this involves libraries which can also be used 
directly by applications, but, again, are most often used indirectly through a 
service.

As I wrote in my reply to Duncan's reaction to [1], KDE developers will often 
prefer a service based approach due to some qualities and advantages inherent 
in it and being a time proven option widely used on Unix like operating 
systems.

As a matter of fact it is no conicidence that both major providers [2] of Free 
Software infrastructure for end user programs are using that approach while 
direct backend access is employed by stand-alone application providers.

Anyway, the topic at hand is the relation ship of this particular technology 
with "semantic desktop" and the point is that its usefulness and goals are 
independent of that.

I see Georg has just explained that as well, but I guess I can't hurt to 
repeat: semantic desktop builds upon technologies such as Akonadi and Strigi, 
but they serve a wider range of purposes than just that or in other words, 
semantic desktop is one of their additional usage scenarios.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=135315899718567&w=2
[2] KDE and GNOME
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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