Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-27 Thread GEO
On Sunday 23 February 2014 12:21:24 GEO wrote: > On Sunday 23 February 2014 12:14:30 Vishesh Handa wrote: > > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:58:48 AM GEO wrote: > > > First of all: I am totally for xattr, thank you Vishesh for the great > > > idea! > > > > Thanks, though the idea was Simeons. I

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Sandsmark
On Tuesday 21. January 2014 14.54.39 Thomas Lübking wrote: > I *do* consider xattr the BY FAR more sane approach to the problem, but > currently do frankly not see this on end user desktops :-( Luckily, we develop end-user desktops and the people who develop the other parts of this system are nor

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Sandsmark
On Tuesday 21. January 2014 16.04.51 Vishesh Handa wrote: > Well, anything is possible. Someone would just need to implement it. We had > wanted to do something similar during the Nepomuk days as well, but it > didn't quite materialize. Point me to roughly where in the stack to implement it, and I

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-23 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Samstag, 22. Februar 2014 10:37:04 CEST, GEO wrote: You could a share a document not containing any personal information (a third party document stored on your hdd), but the comments or tags could contain information you do not want to share with others. And you might just as well want t

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-23 Thread GEO
On Friday, February 21, 2014 07:55:39 PM Thiago Macieira wrote: > Em sex 21 fev 2014, às 21:00:07, Nicolás Alvarez escreveu: > > 2014-02-21 20:30 GMT-03:00 Sebastian Kügler : > > > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:58:48 GEO wrote: > > >> Maybe a strange idea, but it would resolve the privacy probl

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-23 Thread GEO
On Sunday 23 February 2014 12:14:30 Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:58:48 AM GEO wrote: > > First of all: I am totally for xattr, thank you Vishesh for the great > > idea! > > Thanks, though the idea was Simeons. I just implemented some parts of it :) I was not able to fi

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-23 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:58:48 AM GEO wrote: > First of all: I am totally for xattr, thank you Vishesh for the great idea! > Thanks, though the idea was Simeons. I just implemented some parts of it :) -- Vishesh Handa

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-22 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em sáb 22 fev 2014, às 10:37:04, GEO escreveu: > > Is the metadata any more sensitive than the data itself? If you're copying > > a file to an unencrypted filesystem, then the data is no longer secure. > You could a share a document not containing any personal information (a > third party document

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-21 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em sex 21 fev 2014, às 21:00:07, Nicolás Alvarez escreveu: > 2014-02-21 20:30 GMT-03:00 Sebastian Kügler : > > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:58:48 GEO wrote: > >> Maybe a strange idea, but it would resolve the privacy problem: Baloo > >> could > >> optionally encrypt all the attributes using a

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2014-02-21 20:30 GMT-03:00 Sebastian Kügler : > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:58:48 GEO wrote: >> Maybe a strange idea, but it would resolve the privacy problem: Baloo could >> optionally encrypt all the attributes using a user defined password, meaning >> baloo stores encrypted strings as file

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:58:48 GEO wrote: > Maybe a strange idea, but it would resolve the privacy problem: Baloo could > optionally encrypt all the attributes using a user defined password, meaning > baloo stores encrypted strings as file attributes. I have no experience > with file attri

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-02-21 Thread GEO
understanding much of it anyway. Looking forward to the release! -- View this message in context: http://kde.6490.n7.nabble.com/Moving-Baloo-forward-tp1556434p1560700.html Sent from the kde-core-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 22:06:45 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: > Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 20:10:13 schrieb Ivan Čukić: > > > To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied and > > > re- > > > indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process just needs to take > > > care

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-29 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday, 2014-01-29, 09:09:50, Martin Klapetek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Todd wrote: > > What about something like what Dolphin has now, where when you drop a file > > on a removable filesystem or remote drive it pops up the current > > copy/move/link option, but also has a ch

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-29 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday, 2014-01-29, 00:06:11, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > I don't think it makes sense to work around a social problem (uneducated > users) by using an inferior and much more complex technical solution > (some database instead of xattrs). IMHO the advantages of using xattrs > (e.g. we get easy syn

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-29 Thread Martin Klapetek
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Todd wrote: > > What about something like what Dolphin has now, where when you drop a file > on a removable filesystem or remote drive it pops up the current > copy/move/link option, but also has a checkbox (disabled by default buy > configurable) to "copy metadat

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-28 Thread Todd
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 20:10:13 schrieb Ivan Čukić: > > > To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied and > re- > > > indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process just needs to > take > > > care of tran

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-28 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Tuesday 28 January 2014 22:06:45 Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 20:10:13 schrieb Ivan Čukić: > > > To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied > > > and re- indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process > > > just needs to take care of transfe

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-28 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 20:10:13 schrieb Ivan Čukić: > > To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied and re- > > indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process just needs to take > > care of transfering the xattr. This can even work when using a USB stick > > or s

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-28 Thread Ivan Čukić
> To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied and re- > indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process just needs to take > care of transfering the xattr. This can even work when using a USB stick or > so as interim medium. I'm all for xattrs, but this thread really r

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 08:03:54 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: > Am Freitag, 24. Januar 2014, 15:59:12 schrieb Vadim Zhukov: > > 2014/1/24 Sebastian Kügler : > > > On Friday, January 24, 2014 01:24:54 Vadim Zhukov wrote: > > >> in the best case you'll have two totally different codepaths > > >> tha

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-27 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Am Freitag, 24. Januar 2014, 15:59:12 schrieb Vadim Zhukov: > 2014/1/24 Sebastian Kügler : > > On Friday, January 24, 2014 01:24:54 Vadim Zhukov wrote: > >> in the best case you'll have two totally different codepaths > >> that you'll have to manage. > > > > This should be "worst case", I think. I

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-27 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Freitag, 24. Januar 2014 12:59:12 CEST, Vadim Zhukov wrote: It's doubtful at least whether xattr support is a good thing, because it's too easily gets misused: for example, there were viruses on Windows which effectively hidden themselves in NTFS streams. IOW: "It's doubtful at least whether

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-27 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Divendres, 24 de gener de 2014, a les 15:59:12, Vadim Zhukov va escriure: > 2014/1/24 Sebastian Kügler : > > On Friday, January 24, 2014 01:24:54 Vadim Zhukov wrote: > >> in the best case you'll have two totally different codepaths > >> that you'll have to manage. > > > > This should be "worst

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-27 Thread Vadim Zhukov
2014/1/24 Sebastian Kügler : > On Friday, January 24, 2014 01:24:54 Vadim Zhukov wrote: >> in the best case you'll have two totally different codepaths >> that you'll have to manage. > > This should be "worst case", I think. In the best case, there's xattr support, > meaning another code path isn't

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-27 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 01/26/14 00:38, Matthew Dawson wrote: > On January 25, 2014 10:02:09 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: >> On Samstag, 25. Januar 2014 21:03:44 CEST, Matthew Dawson wrote: >>> At least for ext4, xattrs are the default mode >> Indeed - removed user_xattr and they're still there. >> >> Do you happen to know

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-25 Thread Matthew Dawson
On January 25, 2014 10:02:09 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Samstag, 25. Januar 2014 21:03:44 CEST, Matthew Dawson wrote: > > At least for ext4, xattrs are the default mode > > Indeed - removed user_xattr and they're still there. > > Do you happen to know when this happened? (google got me a patch

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-25 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Samstag, 25. Januar 2014 21:03:44 CEST, Matthew Dawson wrote: At least for ext4, xattrs are the default mode Indeed - removed user_xattr and they're still there. Do you happen to know when this happened? (google got me a patch suggest from mid 2011 but i found no "hey heads up: xattr now d

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-25 Thread Matthew Dawson
On January 21, 2014 02:54:39 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014 13:37:29 CEST, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > > And windows? > > HPFS/NTFS has xattr support (through alternative data streams) and WINNT > supports handling xattr on FAT as well. > > The problem about xattr is rather

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-24 Thread Ivan Čukić
Well, the 'worst case' is actually the real case. But, the thing is that it will be actively tested and developed simply because we will have both filesystems with xattr (home etc.), and without (vfat usb-s, encfs stuff and similar). So, both are used at the same time, and regressions will be not

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-24 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, January 24, 2014 01:24:54 Vadim Zhukov wrote: > in the best case you'll have two totally different codepaths > that you'll have to manage. This should be "worst case", I think. In the best case, there's xattr support, meaning another code path isn't needed. Cheers, -- sebas http://w

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-24 Thread Vadim Zhukov
2014/1/21 Thomas Lübking : > On Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014 13:37:29 CEST, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > >> And windows? > > > HPFS/NTFS has xattr support (through alternative data streams) and WINNT > supports handling xattr on FAT as well. > > The problem about xattr is rather that 99% of all ext3/4 us

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014, 02:10:21 schrieb Vishesh Handa: > On Saturday 18 January 2014 12:53:38 Jonathan Marten wrote: > > Vishesh Handa writes: > > > http://community.kde.org/Baloo > > > > Thanks for producing that useful page, and of course for all your past > > and current work on Nepomuk

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tuesday 21 January 2014 12:32:29 Todd wrote: > > Would it be possible to store the metadata inside files that support it > (like images or music files) and use xattrs only for files that don't have > their own internal metadata format? Well, anything is possible. Someone would just need to imp

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014 13:37:29 CEST, viv...@gmail.com wrote: And windows? HPFS/NTFS has xattr support (through alternative data streams) and WINNT supports handling xattr on FAT as well. The problem about xattr is rather that 99% of all ext3/4 users will atm get setfattr: : Operati

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 01/21/14 13:22, Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Tuesday 21 January 2014 13:06:40 viv...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 01/21/14 11:50, Vishesh Handa wrote: >>> On Tuesday 21 January 2014 02:24:01 Francesco R. wrote: just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go. Managing xattr

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 01/21/14 11:50, Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Tuesday 21 January 2014 02:24:01 Francesco R. wrote: >> just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go. >> Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs by default don't >> even copy xattrs. >> > I disagree. It'll be easie

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread Francesco R.
Il 21/01/2014 02:10, Vishesh Handa ha scritto: > On Saturday 18 January 2014 12:53:38 Jonathan Marten wrote: >> Vishesh Handa writes: >>> http://community.kde.org/Baloo >> Thanks for producing that useful page, and of course for all your past >> and current work on Nepomuk and Baloo. There is one

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread Todd
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Tuesday 21 January 2014 02:24:01 Francesco R. wrote: > > > > just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go. > > Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs by default don't > > even copy xattrs. > > > >

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tuesday 21 January 2014 13:06:40 viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 01/21/14 11:50, Vishesh Handa wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 January 2014 02:24:01 Francesco R. wrote: > >> just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go. > >> Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs b

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tuesday 21 January 2014 12:37:14 Jaime wrote: > 2014/1/21 Vishesh Handa > > > On Tuesday 21 January 2014 02:24:01 Francesco R. wrote: > > > just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go. > > > Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs by default don't > > >

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread Jaime
2014/1/21 Vishesh Handa > On Tuesday 21 January 2014 02:24:01 Francesco R. wrote: > > > > just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go. > > Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs by default don't > > even copy xattrs. > > > > Plus, with extended attributes

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tuesday 21 January 2014 02:24:01 Francesco R. wrote: > > just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go. > Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs by default don't > even copy xattrs. > I disagree. It'll be easier to backup / restore xattr than it would b

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-20 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Saturday 18 January 2014 12:53:38 Jonathan Marten wrote: > Vishesh Handa writes: > > http://community.kde.org/Baloo > > Thanks for producing that useful page, and of course for all your past > and current work on Nepomuk and Baloo. There is one statement there > that makes me a little concern

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-20 Thread Martin Klapetek
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Marten wrote: > Vishesh Handa writes: > > http://community.kde.org/Baloo > > Thanks for producing that useful page, and of course for all your past > and current work on Nepomuk and Baloo. There is one statement there > that makes me a little concerned:

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-20 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday 17 January 2014 01:47:17 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Thus my suggestion is that after we get the wiki done and we explain > clearly the situation as Thomas Lübking suggested (i.e. if you really > really really really need what Nepomuk provides and can't accept a single > regression in tha

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-20 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Monday 20 January 2014 23:17:26 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dilluns, 20 de gener de 2014, a les 19:08:41, Vishesh Handa va escriure: > > On Sunday 19 January 2014 14:44:01 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > http://community.kde.org/Baloo/NepomukPort > > > > > > misses lots of stuff of plasma-mobi

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-20 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 20 de gener de 2014, a les 19:08:41, Vishesh Handa va escriure: > On Sunday 19 January 2014 14:44:01 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > http://community.kde.org/Baloo/NepomukPort > > > > misses lots of stuff of plasma-mobile, share-like-connect, rekonq, ktp, > > tellico. > > Added > > > Fo

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-20 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Sunday 19 January 2014 14:44:01 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > http://community.kde.org/Baloo/NepomukPort > > misses lots of stuff of plasma-mobile, share-like-connect, rekonq, ktp, > tellico. > Added > Found in http://lxr.kde.org/search?filestring=&string=nepomuk > > Can you please find out

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-20 Thread Jörg Ehrichs
Hi Vishesh, 2014/1/17 Vishesh Handa > > http://community.kde.org/Baloo > > Could someone please prooof read this page and let me know where it can be > improved? > > I experimented a bit with Conquirere and its possible port to a sql like database. While it is possible, it means I need to chang

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-20 Thread Martin Klapetek
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > http://community.kde.org/Baloo/NepomukPort > > misses lots of stuff of plasma-mobile, share-like-connect, rekonq, ktp, > tellico. > KTp is already ported for some time now :) Cheers -- Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-19 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Divendres, 17 de gener de 2014, a les 17:50:38, Vishesh Handa va escriure: > Hey Albert > > Thanks for sending this email. > > On Friday 17 January 2014 01:47:17 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > Hi guys, seems we have reached a kind of impasse regarding what to do with > > Baloo and Nepomuk. Since

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-18 Thread Jonathan Marten
Vishesh Handa writes: > http://community.kde.org/Baloo Thanks for producing that useful page, and of course for all your past and current work on Nepomuk and Baloo. There is one statement there that makes me a little concerned: "This metadata is now stored with the extended attributes of the fi

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-17 Thread Christoph Feck
On Friday 17 January 2014 17:50:38 Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Friday 17 January 2014 01:47:17 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > I guess that most of the answers can be extracted from the emails > > of the discussion, but having a central place that people can go > > and read surely helps. > > http://com

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-17 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 17 January 2014 17:50:38 Vishesh Handa wrote: > Hey Albert > > Thanks for sending this email. > > On Friday 17 January 2014 01:47:17 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > Hi guys, seems we have reached a kind of impasse regarding what to do > > with > > Baloo and Nepomuk. Since the 4.13 freeze i

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-17 Thread Vishesh Handa
Hey Albert Thanks for sending this email. On Friday 17 January 2014 01:47:17 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Hi guys, seems we have reached a kind of impasse regarding what to do with > Baloo and Nepomuk. Since the 4.13 freeze is coming sooner than you think > (less than 6 weeks) I'd like to try to ge

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-17 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday, 2014-01-17, 01:47:17, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > If we move now, in one year we will have had 1 year of real usage uncovering > bugs and 1 year of bugfixes. > > If we move in one year, we will have lost that 1 year of real usage (since > few people will be using it) and so in one year

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-17 Thread Martin Klapetek
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > Thus my suggestion is that after we get the wiki done and we explain > clearly > the situation as Thomas Lübking suggested (i.e. if you really really really > really need what Nepomuk provides and can't accept a single regression in >

Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-16 Thread Albert Astals Cid
Hi guys, seems we have reached a kind of impasse regarding what to do with Baloo and Nepomuk. Since the 4.13 freeze is coming sooner than you think (less than 6 weeks) I'd like to try to get it moving again. Here comes my proposal: Create a wiki where you clearly explain: * What is Baloo * Wh