[Nepomuk] Re: nepomuk & gnome & firefox

[Bruce Adams]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Richard Dale <richard.j.dale at gmail.com>
> To: nepomuk at kde.org
> Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 5:40:17 PM
> Subject: [Nepomuk] Re: nepomuk & gnome & firefox
> 
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Sebastian Trüg <trueg at kde.org>  wrote:
> > The solution is simply what I said: we support the tracker API  and
> > that's it. The other way around is not possible anyway.
> OK, how  would you like to support the tracker API? I'm still not clear
> on what you  are saying.
> 
> One way would be to write a Tracker backend for Soprano 2.x  which
> would support a subset of the Virtuoso backend's  functionality.
> 
> Another way would be to write a QSparql based backend for  Soprano 2.x
> which would interface with Tracker, and also support SPARQL  endpoints
> and Virtuoso as a side effect, although you would be perfectly  welcome
> not to use that extra functionality as the drivers are only plugins.  I
> happen to be an expert on the Tracker apis (both the DBus one and  the
> newer 'direct api'), and the Tracker team are cooperating to  improve
> their api WRT its use in QSparql. I am also an active KDE  developer
> who has developed language bindings for Soprano and Nepomuk, and I  am
> quite happy to work on KDE things in my spare time. So if anyone can
> do  this particular task I feel I should be about the person person  to
> try.
> 
> I don't know what your plans for Soprano 3.x are as I haven't  studied
> the code yet.
> 
> --  Richard


From my angle as a noob a lot of this is missing the point.
I want to read and write tag clouds in a platform independent way.
A rich ontology is all very well (and vitally important for more advanced uses).
But at the start of the day I want to be able to do something like:

Nepomuk::File  file( "some/path");
file.addTag("foo");

Just like in the examples here:

http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/nepomuk/html/examples.html

and see the tag "foo" appear in the "quickview" in dolphin and
the equivalent Gnome apps (and firefox).

Surprisingly this is 'bleeding edge' stuff (kde 4.6) rather than the bare 
essentials
and doesn't work on my up to date ubuntu 10.10 installation which is still on 
kde 4.5.1.
(actually this is beyond the bleeding edge as the tag needs to be declared 
first, but you get the idea)

Regards,

Bruce.