[Nepomuk] Re: dolphin faceted search under Kubuntu/KDE 4.6 RC2

[Sebastian Trüg]

Hi Darren,

you can do sparql queries like so:

nepomuksearch:/?sparql=select ?r where { ...

but be aware that the query needs to be percent-encoded.

Cheers,
Sebastian

On 01/18/2011 03:15 PM, Darren Cruse wrote:
> Hi Sebastion thanks for your reply I had seen it just hadn't found time
> to reply.  Posting this back to the main list in case others would
> benefit btw.
> 
> And because I didn't want to leave my last message to the board with the
> impression Nepomuk wasn't working for me.
> 
> Because I tried Nepomuk again last night and I'm having more success it
> is working much better than I'd realized.
> 
> e.g. I am able to see html thumbnails as you said, and I'm able to
> search and even use the "hastag: splat" syntax in the search box, etc.
> 
> And to be honest I'm unclear right now why I've felt different things
> were/weren't working different things I've tried it.
> 
> I honestly think it's a combination of maybe some things truly not
> working for me (whether due to bugs or some kind installation problem on
> my box), but now it appears it maybe more from my own inexperience with
> how the UI works and what will/won't/should/shouldn't work depending on
> what combination of buttons I've pushed (which probably means there's
> some room for improvement usability wise ;).
> 
> e.g. It appears I pretty much have to leave the "Everywhere" button
> pushed, because if I choose "From here" it literally only searches the
> current directory and not it's subdirectories (that's not the intent or
> is it?)
> 
> And regarding me saying the html thumbnails hadn't been showing, it's
> quite possible that I had not enabled them through the
> Settings->Configure Dolphin->General->Previews area.  Or that I had
> maybe not had the "Preview" button pushed.  But doing that they do show
> just as you'd suggested they would.
> 
> And then regarding searching tags using "hastag: splat" in the search
> box, I had been searching in general with "Filename" selected not
> "Content", and it's likely that when I'd tried that before I hadn't
> realized it would only work if you select "Content".
> 
> And that appears to be true of the Filter Pane as well right.  I hadn't
> realized it only works with "Content" selected but it does work for me
> when it's selected.
> 
> I even just stumbled on this
> <http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=202&t=92424> for creating the
> virtual folders corresponding to your query results which I just tried
> that's awesome.
> 
> The only other thing I've tried that I haven't been able to get to work
> was I was wondering if I could/should be able to do sparql queries
> through the dolphin search box and/or create virtual folders that run
> those?  
> 
> I can't seem to make that work if so...  not sure why maybe somehow I'm
> using the wrong syntax or not encoding something that needs to be or
> something...
>