On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote: > On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote: > >> On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote: > >>>> Hello list, > >>>> when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs > >>>> kdelibs compiled with USE="semantic-desktop" and cannot be told to not > >>>> use it. But I do not like the idea of semantic desktop and I will not > >>>> install it. > >>> > >>> you don't even now what that is. Right? > >>> > >>> You just don't use 'it' and you are fine. Btw, I am sure you already > >>> have it installed with soprano. > >> > >> My understanding is the semantic-desktop is just the latest incarnation > >> of kde's clone of google desktop search which just wastes CPU, memory, > >> and disk space. Personally I don't see the need for this technology as > >> I'm perfectly happy waiting a few seconds on "find" every few months. > > > > your understanding is wrong. Completely wrong. Seriously it hurts. > > > > start here: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(framework) > > > > and then proceed with the links. > > > > google-desktop is something completley different (and something that can > > be replaced with find, locate and grep). > > OK, after reading several articles from the given starting point, I now > understand why semantic-desktop wastes so much cpu, memory, and storage > (really, if you organize your data properly who cares about a file's > relationship to an email?).
because to 'organize it properly' you would need a huge directory tree plus symlinks plus explaining notes to even simulate a small token of the stuff 'semantic desktop' can do for you.. > Also didn't read anything even hinting at > security awareness of the technology which is really scary (imagine an > attack that get's access to the RDFs, those RDFs are in your home directory. If someone can read your home you are screwed anyway. > it'd tell the attacker exactly which > additional files to target). oh yes, reading stuff about emails tells him to read more emails. That is scary. > And since I don't use/like dolphin, I'll > stick with my original opinion that the semantic-desktop should be totally > disabled/uninstalled. and you can do that. Oh wow. That useflag only turns on soprano. Nothing else. Which means nothing. You are not forced to use that stuff. > > IMO, mandatory semantic-desktop is a very good reason to find another > desktop manager (even after being my primary desktop for 7 years). yeah good luck with that. Because gnome is moving in that direction too. Seriously guys, you start sounding like luddites. Is new, must be bad.
