On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Mario Fux KDE ML <kde...@unormal.org>wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 09. Januar 2014, 23.26:01 schrieb Àlex Fiestas: > > Morning Alex > > > On Thursday 09 January 2014 21:52:52 Christoph Feck wrote: > > > But if the above scenario does not work, we should probably not > > > introduce Baloo for KDE SC 4.x. > > > > I have to disagree here. > > And I'm probably disagree with you but let me explain below. > > > We can't keep playing this conservative when we have things that are in > the > > Nepomuk situation. If it is the most hated piece of software we have is > not > > by chance. > > > > If the breakage is minimal (which I know it is, but I will let vHanda > reply > > to that) I vote to replace it even if we make a bit worse the experience > > using some weird application that nobody has heard of. > > The release schedule for 4.13 is really short (4 month). With the feature > freeze in approx. 1.5 months, see [1]. > > As 4.13 will be one of our last release in the 4 era I think we should be > quite sure that we don't break anything or even more to be 110% sure to > have > fallbacks, migration, APIs for Nepomuk apps to access Baloo data etc. > > And even though I know that Vishesh is doing a great and a hell of a job > I'm > not too sure if one single person can manage all of this (not just the > implementation but I think it needs a lot of testing as well). > > IIRC it's still not clear for all the current Nepomuk apps if they work > after > 4.13. Let's try to list them again. > > - Amarok (got Nepomuk support with 2.7, will it work after 4.13? > - Digikam (gets new Nepomuk with 4.0.0 due in May or so. Will it work)? > - Dolphin > - Gwenview > - Conquiere > - KPhotoalbum > - Kamoso (seems so be ready in time) > - Kdenlive (out of the most popular KDE apps, with some man power problems > atm, ok, but nonetheless) > - Nepomuk-webminer and Nepomuktvnamer > - Plasma Active/Plasma mobile with Share-Like-Connect > >From what I read on the baloo page, it seems likes baloo accesses various databases. If that is the case, instead of a bridge that copies metadata back and forth like in nepomuk, would it be possible for programs like Digikam and Amarok to allow baloo to access their databases directly?
