On Monday 08 Feb 2016 01:57:52 Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 02/08/16 01:38, Mick wrote:
> > But you should be able to stop it from indexing your files. If you go to > > systemsettings/Desktop Search you can disable it. > > That's what I've come to the conclusion I'm going to need to do. This > "semantic desktop", for me, is a pile of rubbish. I don't need it and > don't want it, but the people at KDE apparently know better my needs > than I do so they have embedded this stuff so deep you can't untangle > it. It's just more gumpf that gets installed, for no other reason than a > developers ego trip. > > Thanks for the comments, > Andrew I think it was started by sponsorship via an EU project, back in the 00s, when Linux was seen as an alternative contender to the US MSWindows desktop monopoly. To break into the corporate world the concept of a semantic desktop with a database back end was seen as key requirement. I don't know if they were thinking of a corporate/federated database at the time, to share address books and client info, but the concept was not managed carefully through a staged release program. They dumped their half-baked semantic desktop and KDEPIM nightmare onto unsuspecting users, who started losing their emails and address books. This I recall was limited to one version of KDEPIM only, but the credibility of the whole project was lost at that point. Thankfully KDE has improved since. :-) -- Regards, Mick
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