Re: [kde] Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

2012-11-18 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Saturday, 2012-11-17, Rafa Griman wrote: Hi :) On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Even that doesn't appeal to me, but looking at the number of facebook and twitter users, it probably would appeal to many. I agree. That's why I think it

Re: [kde] Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

2012-11-18 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Duncan wrote: I read something from one of the kde devs, I'm not sure where or which dev, but... They mentioned that the reason the semantic desktop stuff got as BIG a push as it did, back with early kde4, was that one of the European governments had sponsored the

Re: [kde] Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

2012-11-18 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Duncan wrote: It ends up being a distro QA issue, but really, the problem is above the distro. I've seen at least one kde dev mention that had they known about mysql when they chose it as the first stable backend, what they know about it now, the choice may well have

Re: [kde] Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

2012-11-18 Thread Georg C. F. Greve
On Sunday 18 November 2012 11.52:58 Kevin Krammer wrote: Virtuoso would be a very obvious choice for an Akonadi setup running as part of a KDE setup, however when last tried it or rather its SQL driver still wasn't up to the job. On a totally non-technical point: With virtuoso being

Re: [kde] Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

2012-11-18 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Martin (KDE) wrote: Am 18.11.2012 11:52, schrieb Kevin Krammer: If a switch in default backend would have to propagate to the user installations, this would require some changes in the user home directories as well (moving stuff from one database to another). I am

Re: [kde] Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

2012-11-18 Thread Martin (KDE)
Am 18.11.2012 20:05, schrieb Kevin Krammer: On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Martin (KDE) wrote: Am 18.11.2012 11:52, schrieb Kevin Krammer: If a switch in default backend would have to propagate to the user installations, this would require some changes in the user home directories as well (moving

Re: [kde] Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

2012-11-18 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Martin (KDE) wrote: Am 18.11.2012 20:05, schrieb Kevin Krammer: On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Martin (KDE) wrote: What do I have to migrate then? For example there could be data that has not yet been written to its backend. That would be the case if Akonadi is shut