[Nepomuk] Re: nepomuk & gnome & firefox

[Richard Dale]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Sebastian Trüg <trueg at kde.org> wrote:
> AFAIK Gnome uses Tracker only. It would, however, be very simple to
> write a wrapper service that provides the Tracker API from the Nepomuk
> system. That way Gnome and KDE apps could share their data.
> Nothing has been done here yet. As always the developer shortage in
> Nepomuk is the problem.
You can use QSparql (git at gitorious.org:maemo-af/qsparql.git) to access
both Virtuoso, Tracker based stores and SPARQL endpoints with the same
Qt-style asynchronous api. It has drivers for both the DBus based
Tracker apis and the newer and faster 'Tracker direct' one.

-- Richard

> As far as Firefox is concerned: Mandriva is putting effort into that one
> again. Nothing has been released yet though.
>
> All in all: we need developers at all corners!
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
> On 11/08/2010 02:35 AM, Bruce Adams wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     I've been redirected here from the nepomuk-eclipse mailing list where I was
>> originally
>> looking for information on the firefox extension that uses nepomuk. It seems to
>> have fallen out of maintenance.
>> Does anyone know anything about it?
>>
>> My other question concerns integration of nepomuk with gnome. Gnome has xesame
>> which seems a few steps
>> behind nepomuk. Is gnome likely to adopt nepomuk or go its own way? There is an
>> old launch pad item about
>> adding nepomuk integration here, but its no more than a suggestion.
>>
>> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12507/
>>
>> Where I'm coming from is that I would like to create an application with support
>> for tagging files but I would like it to
>> work with both gnome and kde natively. Okay, you can run a nepomuk server and
>> still use gnome but it is not quite
>> the same. Do I need to write a platform independent wrapper library?
>> I'm also wondering about tagging web pages via firefox.
>>
>> I'm sure this is old ground. Perhaps someone could direct me towards some more
>> recent information?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bruce.
>>
>>
>>
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