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Leaving aside the fact that anybody intended on snooping on you doesn't really need the semantic desktop to accomplish his goal, I would argue that while on you
by baghira 12y ago
Leaving aside the fact that anybody intended on snooping on you doesn't really need the semantic desktop to accomplish his goal, I would argue that while on your setup disabling baloo is clearly the right thing to do, when dealing with TB of (local) storage baloo is faster than find/grep (also, grep cannot read inside odf files). In this sense it is similar to akonadi: there is a threshold after which, if you have a fast connection, it makes dealing with 20GB of email better than using an email client which uses sqlite. In a sense I always felt that while nepomuk and akonadi where plagued with implementation issues, part of the hostility in the KDE community was due to selection bias: people who like KDE in general grok the "hierachical filesystem" metaphor, viz. how kcm is structured. However the random Windows/OSX user (to which a desktop environment like KDE has also to cater, to a certain extent) more often than not has a terrible time organizing files: he creates "dumping ground" folders, and then nest them eight times, or simply puts everything on the desktop and ends up relying on finder for everything. Thankfully baloo now can be easily disabled (and works better than the old nepomuk), and users who need a fast Qt-based IMAP client can use Trojità.
- sixbrx 12y agoTurning on search for special cases like 20GB of local email sounds like the perfect reason to opt-in to some sort of specialized search system of the user's choosing.
- bztzt 12y agoeven if you're "good at" hierarchical filesystems they have a few inherent problems: 1) there's overhead associated with coming up with a hierarchical file structure, keeping it updated whenever your problems or your understanding of them change, etc. 2) there's overhead associated with always remembering to put a file in the "right" place every time you save it, actually navigating there to save it, and then fishing it out of the "right" place every time you need a file (getting to a file with search can sometimes be faster than navigating to it even if you know exactly where it is) 3) there is no perfect hierarchical structure for information; there will always be situations where x/y makes as much sense as y/x and both are sometimes inconvenient this is not to suggest that search, tags and other alternative mechanisms don't have their own problems.