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Re: Database? Metadata? Strigi/Nepomuk integration?
by outolumo on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @10:07
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Great work! I for one am looking forward to stable KDE4 release :-)
As for Nepomuk integration, I'm really waiting for that as well, because I understand that it will not only offer the infrastructure to do the indexing (tagging) and allows for the same lightspeed categrization and search we are used to with digiKam, but also allows tight integration with other apps in the platform: marble with the GPS -data, akonadi integration etc. So far my major reason for not using digiKam to its full capacity has been the problem, that its not se well integrated with the desktop.
For example, I have some 6,000 photos, for which digiKam is great editor, but I'd like integrate a hoard of non-photos with slightly different needs to the same system. And I want to tag them all, and I want to tag audiofiles and keynotes in the same system. Somehow I just don't see why I should manage my .mp3 and .xcf -files with digiKam. And if I have to tag these all, why use digiKam. It's a fine editor but lacking integration keeps me from using it more.
I would think that from the developer's perspective using existing tools is a good idea, because then one can concentrate on the essential. From the user point of view being able to swicth from one tool - digiKam - that is great for one thing, to another, say Dolphin, Marble or Gwenview, which has different strenghts, is a motivation to use the stuff.
At the moment the issue seems to be that XMP is malformed RDF, and thus 1-10% of the XMP metadata is in danger of being lost in conversion to RDF. The sooner we get a uniform access to the metadata, the better. Therefore I really look forward to integrating all these great new digiKam features into the wider desktop, so that I can keep on using it when the stable KDE4 release comes out in the fall. |
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