Hello everybody.

kde is a nice desktop. However it gets more and more bloated with functions not needed by everybody.

One of this is the metadata crawler and indexing engine nepomuk. It is OK if one decides to have metadata indexing everywhere on his system and can install a search engine of choice to do the job. So if someone needs it - he can install and configure nepomuk.

But why the hell should everybody have tpo have this installed and running all the time and eating up system resources. I will never use metadata on my files - I will not enter any meta information - so this thing just eats up my hard disk space with machine generated random meta data scrap - while the space for real data gets lost. It slows down my work experiance and anoys me with error messages.

So please, please let the user choose the preferred search engine and do not integrate this into the desktop OS! Just use plug-ins for your crawler, so the system remains clean and fast if one is not willing to use meta-searches or prefers another solution.

Even on windows one can completely disable or uninstall the index and search engine - I have to say Windows is more open and modular than KDE in this point. Please do not integrate things in a monolytic way - it is a very old fashiond approach and against the spirit of a open source distro!

Nepomuk is a metadata store, but it does not perform any indexing. You are confusing it with Strigi, which is the desktop file indexer. You can run Nepomuk without Strigi active.

Thanks, I have to correct myself. it is not just about nepomuk, its about the whole semantic desktop functionality including nepomuk, virtuoso, strigi and all other libraries...)

Have a look to any web browser out there. There are plug-ins and search provider, addon taskbars etc. you can use the browser completely without them. If you want to have additional functions there are interfaces to extend the ways they work.

Why is it so dificult to use this methodology on a modular OS? What I am looking for is a command:

sudo apt-get remove semantic-desktop

and after that kde continues to work the way it does up to ver. 3.x. There is no reason a desktop has to rely on a specific metadata search engine at all.

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