[Nepomuk] search client possibilities displaying results

[Sebastian Trüg]

The problem is very complex. You cannot compare Nepomuk's search
capabilities to kfind in this way. Theoretically our search engine (ie.
the Virtuoso db) can return context but it is very hard to handle
generically.
The reason is that with Nepomuk you can do way more than just searching
for a string. You can build very complex queries where strings are
searched deeply in the query. Thus, one query can have multiple matching
strings and the problem becomes: which do display.
This is the reason it has no been exposed yet.
I will, however, think a bit about the problem. Maybe a solution can be
found where we only return context in certain situations, ie. when it is
clear which context the user meant.

Cheers,
Sebastian

On 09/01/2010 05:46 PM, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Nepomuk indexes files and their content via strigi, e.g. plaint text files or 
> OpenOffice documents. If one searches for some string dolphin et al return a 
> list of files without any context, i.e. if you search at google for a word you 
> get some bits before and after the string found in the document.
> 
> Is this lack of context due to nepomuk/strigi not being able to provide that 
> information, i.e. is search for a string nothing but a quicker version of 
> KDE3's kfind with enabled "contains" checkbox or is it just that the search 
> clients available do not use the information that nepomuk/strigi offer?
> 
> Sven
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