----- Original Message ----
> From: Markus Leuthold <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sun, December 5, 2010 4:54:03 PM
> Subject: [Nepomuk] Re: same nepomuk db for several users
>
> > On 12/02/2010 01:24 AM, Markus Leuthold wrote:
> > > Hello list
> > >
> > > We share our computer among several persons, each with a separate user
> > > account. We want to have a shared nepomuk database. What's the best way
> > > to do this? Creating a symlink of ~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk to a shared
> > > folder?
> > >
> > > best regards
> > > Kusi
>
> > This is tricky. It could be hacked with links indeed. But then no two
> > users could ever be logged in at the same time.
> > Why do you want to share the database?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sebastian
>
> There are many possible use-cases for sharing tags. Some real-world examples:
>
> - me and my girlfriend are planning our vacation. She's tagging documents,
> pictures etc with the tag "vacation-2010". In my account, I'd like to see
> now
> what is already available when I'm organizing our vacations in my account.
>
> - we're preparing a playlist for a party. We'd like to set the tag "party-
> playlist" in dolphin, running in each one's account. Since we're in a hurry,
> we're tagging the music at the same time on two different computers. So it
> should be possible to have the nepomuk db on a remote location.
>
> As mentioned later in this thread, not all tags should be shared. It would
> be
> nice to have several nepomuk-dbs (private/shared). I understand that it's
> quite tricky to get the sharing right: It doesn't make sense to share tags
> for
>
> object which are not shared.
> You could say that tags of files which are readable by both accounts should
> also be saved in a shared nepomuk-db. Probably best would be an extended
> user
> interface where the user can choose the nepomuk location.
>
> I'd like to mention that the workflow in digikam works excellent! We have
> all
> our photos in a shared directory. The sqlite3 file digikam4.db is read/write
> for all users, so each of us can tag photos (even concurrently) in digikam
> in
> our own accounts.
>
> Talking about concurrent access: are you sure 2 nepomuk clients cannot
> access
> the db at the same time? It works with digikam. You can have two running
> instances of digikam (in two accounts), and when you change metadata located
> in digikam4.db, the change is immediately visible in the other running
> instance of digikam
>
> cheers,
> Kusi
If digikam is using sqllite it is presumably not using nepomuk?
I see that it does support nepomuk according the link below.
How are the two database's reconciled (if indeed they are)?
http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/500
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