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Almost everybody I know, that was using KDE, did it because of the pure desktop and not because of the semantic Desktop. Every time, the discussion came to the
by PythonicAlpha 12y ago
Almost everybody I know, that was using KDE, did it because of the pure desktop and not because of the semantic Desktop. Every time, the discussion came to the later, it was how to disable it.
I think, it was a bold idea, but not well implemented. Maybe it also was to soon for such a bold move. With the advent of more cores and faster disks (eg. SSD) there might come the time for an other desktop to implement such thing. When you have eight or more cores, you don't have to worry when one is doing an indexing job all the time.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoFor me the semantic desktop was too resource hungry so it was turn it off or move to a different DE - at one point I had to remove the actual binaries in order to disable it the devs were so keen to push their ideal DE it seemed. TBH if I'd been using the full KDE communication suite then perhaps it would have made sense but the refusal to support the sending of html email for kmail (did they change that yet) moved be back to Thunderbird a long time ago. I applaud the innovation and feel that the community would have really been behind it if it had been optional from the get-go. Having never used Activities I still appreciate that KDE devs tried something different, the great thing with Activities is that – whilst initially you couldn't turn them off – they kept out the way and used little-to-no resources. The desktop search, integrated to Dolphin, is great. Usually I use locate/find/grep but I'd use an integrated search if it could be tamed in its resource usage; but that's really the limit of the "semantic desktop" that I find useful under my desktop use at present.