Strigi / NEPOMUK / Akonadi

BroX · 08-17-2011, 08:31 AM

I used to be a big fan of fluxbox, until I joined the KDE bandwagon when kde4 came out. SOme time ago I noticed that my ~/ partition was taking up almost all of its 10GB. It turned out that the soprano-virtuoso.db was taking up 9.6GB! Now I'm back on fluxbox, and after some customisation I'm loving it!

mariotrevi · 12-18-2011, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by gopips39

+1. My hat's off to the developers up until this point. KDE is slick, very visually appealing and loaded with great features (IMO). However, forcing the evil triples on users now makes is evident that 'they' sold out to the 'social networking' obsession. This bunch, for the most part, has no regard for the concept of privacy - a vary rare & precious commodity nowadays - making KDE a system that can't be trusted with private/confidential data.

It has begun. All 16 users in our group wiped our systems clean of KDE and its programs yesterday, put Windows back for temporary use and begun the process of building new machines based on XFCE. And what a pleasant surprise it was - discovering how far along XFCE has come. This just might be the best thing that could have happened (as far as we're concerned).

I use Fedora. With Fedora 16, GNOME was changed to GNOME 3
and I had problems with it. So I tried out KDE 4.7, and
on the whole, it worked pretty well. As others, I was
annoyed by Strigi indexing, and Nepomuk. It's supposed to
make a Semantic gizmo. Unfortunately, I find that KDE don't
document enough Akonadi, Strigi and Nepomuk.

As it happens, I yanked [yum erase] all three, not knowing
about the "disable" feature.

I really think for Desktop environments, sometimes the
documentation is less than adequate, in some respects.

malekmustaq · 01-10-2012, 11:28 AM

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What's certain is that the "Semantic desktop" is going to generate the biggest heap of redundant PCs since Windows 3 started thrashing in 2MB of memory.

I do not need to have my content indexed. I positively do not want to have my content indexed. On Microsoft operating systems I turn off indexing from day 1, I've seen the cumulative effect it has on performance. And now KDE want me to accept it as standard.

No. Only over my dead body. This is a leap too far to no useful destination.

If in five years the development teams can show a useful product then fine, but they're not going to pollute my environment while they construct their infrastructure. I've never considered myself a reactionary Luddite before but this is where my foot goes down and draws a line in the sand.

Amen................

We loved slackware for something that they have rather tried to destroy. KDE 3 is still better than KDE 4. But..... Xfce does the mission well.