[Nepomuk] Nepomuk 4.11 Roadmap

[Luis Silva]

On Tuesday 05 Feb 2013 21:47:58 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> Hey everyone
> 
> KDE Workspaces 4.10 has nearly been released. It's time to start thinking
> about the next 6 months and see what all we want to get done.
> 
> I've made a rough page over here [1]. It mostly only contains stuff that I
> want done in time for 4.11
> 
> It would be nice if others could chime in and help improve the roadmap and
> maybe even help finish it in time?
> 
> What we currently lack?
> -----------------------------------
> 
> The road-map barely contains any new features. The biggest feature is
> probably the web-miner. We still however, do need more user-visible
> features of Nepomuk.
> 
> I would love to have a better set of widgets for handling tags, artists,
> albums, tvshows, etc. With the web-miner we're going to have a wealth of
> information. We need to allow the users to interact with it properly.
> 
> Another thing which we haven't historically been good at is working with
> other teams - namely Dolphin which is the most user visible way of
> interacting with Nepomuk. This seems like a good time to plan out the next
> 6 months, and see where we can collaborate. With 4.10, the
> KFileMetadataWidget was communicated before, but clearly not enough.
> 
> Also, we really need to start thinking about how we can better integrate
> with Plasma. Marco has done some amazing work in Plasma-Active. It needs to
> be reviewed, and moved to the Plasma Desktop.
> 
> [1] http://community.kde.org/Projects/Nepomuk/4.11
> 
Hi Vishesh and the Nepomuk community,

First of all, thank you for the work all of you have been putting into this project.
Now that the web-miner is going to be integrated in 4.11 I will make an effort to get the movies 
kio into kde-multimedia. If Sebastian is ok with it I can also try to push the tv-show kio. Kde-
multimedia seems the right place for these kios.

I am also working on a "people" kio that shows all the information my computer knows about a 
person. At this point, as pimo:Person's are not yet being created I will only try to push this kio 
to playground but it might be feasible to make it available in 4.12.

At this point, I think that, functionality wise, Nepomuk is quite complete. I would like to have a 
few more plugins in the web-miner but for basic functionality and for such a young project, it is 
working great. 

Here are a few pointer of what I, as a user for personal and scientific purposes, would like to 
see in KDE from the Nepomuk side in the future. Think of it as wishful thinking and loud 
dreaming rather than feature requests:
 - Taging people in pictures. Some time ago I gave it a (unsuccessful) go at trying to put this 
feature into gwenview. Digikam has the whole infrastructure in place but lacks Nepomuk 
integration.
 - The ability to change some of the metadata directly from the KfileMetadataWidget. My 
speciffic use-case is to remove the nfo:Document type from pdf's that are just images and set 
them as nfo:Image's.
 - The ability to set some metadata from inside Okular. Conquirere is THE specialised tool to do 
this but having some metadata editing in okular would be great.
 - The ability to index and remember files opened in  nepomuk aware programs, even if these 
files are not supposed to be indexed. Namely, I am thinking about latex documentation pdf's 
that usually do not reside in indexed folders but are an important pieces of information that 
should be easily accessible and searcheable once discovered.
 - web-miner plugins for subtitles and lyrics and the respective indexers. This would allow for 
local search in your music/video library by more than title.
 - More documentation on what can actually go into the dolphin search bar.
 - Make the pdf indexer aware of the document structure when this is available.
 - An indexer for latex documents that recognises the several files that go into the document.

Cheers,
-- 
Luis Silva

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