Plasma Active Files Management and remote files / devices.
What are the current plans for handling remote files. Plasma Active is moving towards a tag based file management system, however how does this translate to using other devices such as portable hard drives, SD-cards and FTP servers. Nepomuk currently doesn't have a way of sending your tagging information to those devices so it can be referenced later(so all tagging information is lost) And currently there is no solution for this. Possible solutions, device tags: tags that are special and are associated with a device or location, so if a file is tagged it is automatically copied or moved. Furthermore, .nepomuk files basically hidden files similar to .thumbnails and other hidden service files that can be automatically moved when files are moved to a new location. They then can be read by any other PA or nepomuk computer and be used to automatically tag the files referenced so a user's tags aren't lost. What are your thoughts, is this even a problem or something PA should care about? If so what are some other possible solutions? ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Re: Plasma Active Files Management and remote files / devices.
Am 26.02.2013 16:52 schrieb joseph.ana...@gmail.com: What are the current plans for handling remote files. Plasma Active is moving towards a tag based file management system, however how does this translate to using other devices such as portable hard drives, SD-cards and FTP servers. Nepomuk currently doesn't have a way of sending your tagging information to those devices so it can be referenced later(so all tagging information is lost) And currently there is no solution for this. For usb I agree, tere should be a way to tag those two (don't know if this is already possible). I currently see no use case for tagging files on other remote locations like ftp, but wouild be possible. Possible solutions, device tags: tags that are special and are associated with a device or location, so if a file is tagged it is automatically copied or moved. Furthermore, .nepomuk files basically hidden files similar to .thumbnails and other hidden service files that can be automatically moved when files are moved to a new location. They then can be read by any other PA or nepomuk computer and be used to automatically tag the files referenced so a user's tags aren't lost. Maybe you can use the url or uuid (in case of a remote location like ftp) and store this locally on yohr tablet. Since these locations won't change nepomuk would find them later. What are your thoughts, is this even a problem or something PA should care about? If so what are some other possible solutions? ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Re: Plasma Active Files Management and remote files / devices.
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:53:35 joseph.ana...@gmail.com wrote: What are the current plans for handling remote files. Plasma Active is moving towards a tag based file management system, however how does this translate to using other devices such as portable hard drives, SD-cards and FTP servers. this is more a question for nepomuk than plasma active. removable media is also a different beast from network media for a variety of reasons (not least of all is that random access I/O is less likely on network services) so i'd probably start by refining the problem statement to include specific types of systems, e.g. volumes where async, random access i/o is possible, volumes that can be read from and written to, but only atomically, volumes that can only be read from and then looking at possible solutions there. the way you phrased it, my guess is that you are thinking about how to store the nepomuk data *with* the data, e.g. having a nepomuk database on a removable disk that gets used whenever the disk is inserted? and i hope you're asking the question because you're thinking of writing code to address these issues? -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
