Hi On 21 Sep 2014, at 18:05, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote: > I thought I should chime in. I'm currently the maintainer of Baloo in KDE, > and was the maintainer of the Nepomuk project in KDE. > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Philip Van Hoof <phi...@codeminded.be> wrote: > > 3) Moving the ontologies to their own repo still looks like a good > > idea, because there have been some tries to run tracker with custom > > ontologies. A different repo makes it clear that the ontology is > > not "hardcoded" in the store and can be customized "downstream". > > Yes. I think we need to lead and allow certain extensions and changes. > Perhaps we should start with what Baloo and Nepomuk do agree on and > gradually grow it as industries and use-cases join? > > We, in KDE, were quite fed up with the ontologies. With Baloo, we're no > longer using any ontologies. The project simple aims to be a good search > index for files. Baloo does not store any data and is just an index. The > small amount of information that we need to store - user tags and ratings are > stored in the xattr of the files. > > The Nepomuk KDE project is pretty much dead. > > I'll be happy to answer any further questions you have.
*sigh*. Is this a Gnome vs KDE schism? Why Baloo? Why not adopt Tracker? What about applications that like to use a system search service [1]? Cheerio! -r [1] <https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight> _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
