I've been wondering, what is the exact function of NEPOMUK?
I've just been reading about GNOME's Zietrgiest project. hence my interest, really.

All I'm getting out of the NEPOMUK and Strigi system is...zilch, KRunner knows my apps name, but I can't search for files, or tags, or anything. I can only search for apps. I can't put a quote in an get it matched to a document...I cant search through chatlogs or emails, I can't search for files taken from email attachments...etc.

So, are there any plans? The only things I've come accross are a bunch of NEPOMUK semantic tags (like 'ArtistName').

Could it keep track of what I'm doing and allow me to search through that info?

*sigh*

Nepomuk is the KDE equivalent to Tracker apparently. Strigi is a indexing backend which uses Soprano to convert information and store it in Nepomuk. Nepomuk aware applications can then use the Nepomuk index to retrieve information about the file.

At this time, it is still hugely under utilised as the port to KDE 4 pillars is actually still underway, especially in KDE PIM. If Nepomuk and Akonadi were integrated then PIM information would become universally searchable throughout the desktop ( which would facilitate searching for your mail, attachments, etc )

As a user of Kubuntu, you likely do not have the Sesame2 indexing backend available, meaning only Redland is available. Unfortunately Redland is so inefficient and slow it has been disabled by default for indexing. Therefore you will likely have no information regarding files on your system in Nepomuk.

The official default backend for KDE 4.3 should be the Virtuoso server, although on my side I never managed to get it working properly.

Well, I've installed the Soprano-backend-seseme package and the soprano demon was installed by the system eariler...

Good to know things were still being done, I was rather afraid the whole project had been silently abadoned.

There has just recently been a developer sprint (developers meeting in an office-like location for working on one specific topic) for Nepomuk:
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Nepomu ... 09#Results

Cheers,
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