[Nepomuk] Re: nepomuk & gnome & firefox

[Bruce Adams]

That's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for.
So I'm happy to collaborate on any efforts to get something like that going.


Regards,

Bruce.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Sebastian Trüg <trueg at kde.org>
> To: nepomuk at kde.org
> Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 1:04:19 PM
> Subject: [Nepomuk] Re: nepomuk & gnome & firefox
> 
> 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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