[Nepomuk] Dolphin, nepomuk, trash:/

Jamboarder jamboarder at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 18 21:46:31 CET 2009


From: Evgeny Egorochkin 
> > - Should files
> > emptied from the trash or shift-deleted have their resources deleted
> > from nepomuk?  I'm thinking yes, since the nepomuk wouldn't be littered
> > with files that no longer exist.  I just wonder if there might be some
> > semantic data (download history?) that's useful even after a file is
> > deleted.
> 
> This isn't as straightforward.
> 
> If user deletes an mp3 file, it does make sense to stop storing technical data 
> such as bitrate or duration. However if the user tags the song as "utter s*", 
> it makes sense to keep the rating + artist, title etc.
> 
> Thus if the user encounters the song later, he instantly knows to not touch 
> it.

Ahhh, so is it perhaps reasonable for me to use the following behavior as a guideline?

- When the file gets deleted, the semantics of the content(Information
Element?) may persist but the semantics of how it is
stored(DataObject?) go away.

Thanks much,
Andrew


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