Hi,

All is in the title, is there some people (or maybe corporation) out there that don't want to see KDE suceed ?

Why I ask this ?

First, because there's a lot of spam this last weeks, and on others forums that are probably more popular than the KDE forums, there's no such spam.

Secondly, because, again this last weeks there's a lot of new users coming on the forums and they are always complaining about KDE or some of the KDE's technologies like nepomuk for example. Ok, you will say that there's always people creating an account to leave only one ranting message, but it's always people with kubuntu distro in profile (no troll here please, it's not my goal, I point on some identical profiles) or even windows OS sometimes. Even if I don't interact a lot here because I have no free time, I follow this forum for more than 2 years and I find there's a redundance lately.

KDE is a modern DE with powerfull technologies (and clever guys behind it) that can run on multiple OS. So maybe I'm paranoid but do you think that some people out there don't want to see KDE succeed ?

I would like to see KDE as THE DE of the future, however i see a lot of negative things evolving in the development. I see that the open modular concept is thown away and the desktop gets married with a search engine - similar to google's effort to force the user to use googles web services and get access to users private data...

Look at chrome - you cannot enter a url - what you enter is a serch query to a url submitted to google. Same with kde. A deep integration of the so called "semantic desktop" does exatly the same. It does not mean "run the programm I want" it means "search for somthing I might want to and run it".

This is a dramatic change in how to use the system. To get something meaningfull out of it the user have to add meta data to all of his files - in the end big brother has not just access to the data but also to the meaning of the data to a particular user. Using this stuff over the network produces great spyware. Who needs google analytics if you can have nepomuk???

KDE was a great desktop - now it gets corrumpied and bloated - and this is a bad news - because there is no opt-out of this scrap, it is not an add-on, but integrated into the kernel.

A few pointers:

Indexing of files can be disabled in System Settings > Desktop Search. Uncheck "Enable Strigi File Indexer". Having an integrated search function enabled by default is expected by most people.

Also, the information that Nepomuk gathers is NEVER transmitted outside of your computer by KDE.

You can change what options KRunner gathers in it's options, simply untick the Nepomuk runner.