Been using Nepomuk / Strigi in my new KDE 4.5 install. Wow. You guys have come so far! Worked out of the box. Crawled all my stuff, pausing only when my computer was bogged down compiling, only to restart later at a good time automatically. Stayed out of my way, using only limited ram.

I'm having to select a sound track for a video at the moment. First I listened through potential tracks, rating them and adding comments as to the style (so I wouldn't have to listen to them many times for comparison / memory jogging). Then I used Dolphins built in search to find the high rated tracks whose comments contained the name of the style I wanted. Finally I selected the two that would work the best depending on the final length of the video and tagged them accordingly. Later when I needed them, but couldn't remember where the files were, a 3 second search and boom! There they are.

Nepomuk / strigi never missed a beat.

Awesome.

Thanks Nepomuk dev's. Your long, hard work is coming together and bearing some sexy results. Looking forward to seeing the next generation!


PS There's plenty of other threads for complaining about Nepomuk. Feel free to do so there instead.
PPS When (if?) I grow up, I want to be Sebastian Treug! Thanks sebas!

It's nice to hear good things about Nepomuk. We have loads and loads of stuff planned for 4.6 ( at least I do! )

This is me feeling good about myself:
Thanks a lot for your comment - it made my day.
I really hope that we can make you even happier with 4.6

The main reason why I'm not using the rating, tagging and annotating system is that you cannot share your annotations between computers.

When I copy the files from my laptop to my desktop computer the meta-data is lost.

If there was an easy way to sync the nepomuk repository to other machines on the network, that would be awesome and actually make it ready for practical use.

But you are right: The crawler works really nice now, staying out of sight most of the time.

I hope there are some nice new user interfaces for 4.6.

@Vortex375. All good points. That said:

Kubuntiac wrote:PS There's plenty of other threads for complaining about Nepomuk. Feel free to do so there instead.

Oh, and Arch / Chakra FTW!

I happen to really like nepomuk and its rating/tagging abilities aswell, good work guys

however I have a quick question, I currently update from the kde-testing repos and currently have KDE 4.5.1, I've noticed a couple of updates recently to soprano and virtuoso, when these get updated it seems to loose all my tags

Is this normal behaviour or is it something else and I'm just putting it down to updates?

thanks in advance

Martin