KDE's future...

[Confuseling]

Found some more discussion of 'the semantic desktop' here;

Vibrant Community Propels KDE Forward at Akademy 2009 | KDE.news

I can definitely see the sense to it - if they can make it all chug along silently in the background when you aren't busy, and not be a major security concern. But those could be quite big ifs...

Still having trouble tracking down recordings of the talks about all this though. Found a few old ones here;

http://ktown.kde.org/akademy/

If anyone knows of any more, I'd be interested to have a browse...

[consused]

Originally Posted by john_hudson

I agree. No-one is forcing you to use KDE4 and KDE3 will be supported for the foreseeable future.

True, but I wasn't suggesting a KDE3 versus KDE4 scenario. Just using KDE3 to describe the users' experience level. I expect that most will embrace KDE4. That will be easier if new but performance degrading software isn't locked in during installation, and forced on the user. The one thing that could put users off KDE4, is a forced hardware upgrade (Vista moment). Not every desktop requires these new search tools now.

[Knurpht]

IMHO it's a bit of a hype to go against desktop search engines. Compared to beagle, Nepomuk is an immense leap forward. And.....everybody's got something to say about how beagle/kerry and nepomuk slow down performance. Yet we all have compositing and desktop effects enabled.
To all those complaining about mentioned programs: see what happens if you turn off compositing/desktop effects. You will be amazed by the increase of overall performance.

[consused]

Originally Posted by Knurpht

IMHO it's a bit of a hype to go against desktop search engines. Compared to beagle, Nepomuk is an immense leap forward. And.....everybody's got something to say about how beagle/kerry and nepomuk slow down performance. Yet we all have compositing and desktop effects enabled.
To all those complaining about mentioned programs: see what happens if you turn off compositing/desktop effects. You will be amazed by the increase of overall performance.

Given your oversexed hardware, don't you think it's just a wee bit arrogant to be talking in those terms when it probably doesn't affect you adversely.

Saying "Yet we all have compositing and desktop effects enabled." might just be wrong. I don't for starters.

[brunomcl]

Originally Posted by growbag

One thing that unnerves me whenever I have to use a Microsoft OS is that the disk is busy thrashing away in the background. I have no idea what it is doing, it makes me feel extremely insecure.

I totally relate to that!

[brunomcl]

Originally Posted by Knurpht

see what happens if you turn off compositing/desktop effects. You will be amazed by the increase of overall performance.

Not my experience here with a relatively slow laptop (turion 64 single core). Although there's a performance hit, it's not perceptible in (my) day-to-day use. Only time I use do disable it is when running google earth, and that is out of habit, must check if it's still necessary. Of course, YMMV.