On Thursday 04 September 2008, Christian Phang wrote: > I missed the discussion yesterday on #nepomuk-kde. From the log I > think we still don't agree on common understanding what context and > what will be implemented in KDE.
based on what i understood from your email, you are talking about reacting to what the user is actively doing right now as well as infering larger context by watching streams of events. this is a very interesting area, though personally i find it of limited real world usefulness. i say that because it's been tried before, i've tried implementations of it, and none of them have made me go "oh yeah!" but that's ok .. i'm sure you can prove me wrong by implementing something amazingly cool and interesting within / next to / on top of KDE 4 along these lines. and it doesn't matter what i personally think or what the conversation about context was yesterday on #nepomuk-kde because ....... .... the kind of context you are talking about isn't at all what i am currently interested in. they are, afaic, rather orthogonal aproaches within the same general umbrella concept of "contextual awareness". you're talking about user observation, implicit queries and automatic summaries of related materials. i'm talking about different application and data states depending on the project the user is explicitly working on, or the physical location they happen to be in. so when you say: > From the log I > think we still don't agree on common understanding what context and > what will be implemented in KDE. i don't think it's a big issue because we (collectively) can do both what you are talking about and what i am talking about and they don't need to conflict or even really overlap. they probably would compliment each other and as each line of interest is developed, i'll be very interested in ensuring the work well with each other. in the meantime, i've got real world use cases to cover and actual code written to do so. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech
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