On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There's a few keywords to start a search with - nepomuk, sematic desktop > > Maybe I just don't "get it" but all of the descriptions of this stuff > flies way over my head. Admittedly, as soon as I see the word "social" > being applied to my personal files, the red alerts go off and my brain > shuts down. :) > > The idea of the things on my "desktop" being tied to the internet > sounds very Microsoft-y and DRM-y and anti-privacy.
it has nothing to do with all the three. > First thing I did > when I installed KDE4 was disable all of that indexing and crap. me too, but because I have all my stuff nicely sorted and don't need it. But I do see its potential usefullness. > I > don't want some master database of all of my files and their contents, > and I certainly don't want information about them being sent "out > there" somewhere. and it isn't. > > But, like I said, maybe I just don't get it. > > To me, and I say this as a KDE4 user, the KDE devs have blatantly > plagiarized the Vista desktop and the Mac OS X control panel and put > it all together on top of Qt4. :) if you ignore the fact that kde4 came before vista and osx itself is nothing but a bad copy.
