On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote: > >> On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote: > >> >> Hello list, > >> >> when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs > >> >> kdelibs compiled with USE="semantic-desktop" and cannot be told to > >> >> not use it. But I do not like the idea of semantic desktop and I > >> >> will not install it. > >> > > >> > you don't even now what that is. Right? > >> > > >> > You just don't use 'it' and you are fine. Btw, I am sure you already > >> > have it installed with soprano. > >> > >> My understanding is the semantic-desktop is just the latest incarnation > >> of kde's clone of google desktop search which just wastes CPU, memory, > >> and > >> disk space. Personally I don't see the need for this technology as I'm > >> perfectly happy waiting a few seconds on "find" every few months. > > > > your understanding is wrong. Completely wrong. Seriously it hurts. > > > > start here: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(framework) > > > > and then proceed with the links. > > > > google-desktop is something completley different (and something that can > > be replaced with find, locate and grep). > > Well, in 4.3.x I eliminated it after the first try, because it took so many > resources of my machine, that I could not use it for something else. So, > you mean, in 4.4.x it takes only a 10% of the resources it took with > 4.3.x? LOL, although I really like the idea of the semantic desktop, I > rather have a usable machine ... > > - Jörg
I don't know what load it creates because I never even have any negative impact. Yes, there is some nepomuk stuff sleeping in the background and it has zero impact on my desktop behaviour.
