[Nepomuk] Nepomuk 4.11 Roadmap

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi,

2013/2/6 Alex Fiestas:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2013 21:47:58 Vishesh Handa wrote:
>> Hey everyone
>>
>> KDE Workspaces 4.10 has nearly been released. It's time to start thinking
>> about the next 6 months and see what all we want to get done.
>>
>> I've made a rough page over here [1]. It mostly only contains stuff that I
>> want done in time for 4.11
>>
>> It would be nice if others could chime in and help improve the roadmap and
>> maybe even help finish it in time?
>>
>> What we currently lack?
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> The road-map barely contains any new features. The biggest feature is
>> probably the web-miner. We still however, do need more user-visible
>> features of Nepomuk.
>>
>> I would love to have a better set of widgets for handling tags, artists,
>> albums, tvshows, etc. With the web-miner we're going to have a wealth of
>> information. We need to allow the users to interact with it properly.
>>
>> Another thing which we haven't historically been good at is working with
>> other teams - namely Dolphin which is the most user visible way of
>> interacting with Nepomuk. This seems like a good time to plan out the next
>> 6 months, and see where we can collaborate. With 4.10, the
>> KFileMetadataWidget was communicated before, but clearly not enough.
>>
>> Also, we really need to start thinking about how we can better integrate
>> with Plasma. Marco has done some amazing work in Plasma-Active. It needs to
>> be reviewed, and moved to the Plasma Desktop.
>>
>> [1] http://community.kde.org/Projects/Nepomuk/4.11
>
> I have been thinking for a while how we can improve the Places panel in
> Dolphin. One of the things that are quite obvious to me is the waste of space
> that having 4 "recently accessed" entries produces.
>
> My proposal is to replace these 4 entries with a timeline similar to what can
> be found in Active:
>
> https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cH3zgOyoj6I/UG9jzkVIhXI/AAAAAAAAAD4/-wpUAk6C_Qc/w497-h373/pa3_filebrowser.png
>
> Do not mind the design, we will have to design something specific for Dolphin.
>
> What matters from the screenshot is the concept of having a navigable way of
> browsing files based on a timeline from the very beginning.
>
> Done this, we will be able to replace those 4 entries by 1, making room for
> more awesome like "PC near you".
>
> What do you think? If you like the idea I can cook a mockup or even better we
> can ask some usability guru to do it and think about it.

The idea certainly looks interesting, thanks! However, I'm not sure if
that could really be put into the Places Panel - it would look a bit
inconsistent if there are the 'traditional' places and the devices in
a plain list of entries and then the timeline thing. Moreover, that
widget might need quite a bit of vertical space, maybe it won't really
fit in the panel together with the other entries if there are many
'places'/many devices?

Another approach might be to put that into a new 'Timeline' panel.
Maybe some parts of the code could then even be shared with the
existing implementation in the screenshot.

Best regards,
Frank