[Nepomuk] Re: nepomuk & gnome & firefox

[Sebastian Trüg]

This is what I mean: a DBUs API that provides what the Nepomuk-KDE API
provides at the moment.

Cheers,
Sebastian

On 11/17/2010 09:58 AM, Bruce Adams wrote:
> ----- 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.
> 
> 
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