KDE SC 4.13

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi all,


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Rohan Garg <rohangarg at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>> > (if our primary concern are low quality reviews that do not bother to
>> > install/upgrade, then I guess 4.12 would be the way to go :P)
>>
>
> My main concern are things not working out of the box in the KDE 4.13 RC ( as
> is often the case with RC's as witnessed in earlier KDE SC releases ). KDE SC
> 4.13 will also feature a new search framework, and some applications like
> Amarok are likely not to be ported by that time. So we're left in the weird
> situation where we will have Nepomuk and Baloo on the ISO.
>
> Ofcourse, we could just drop Nepomuk from the ISO and then we leave it up to
> the users to install Nepomuk to get required meta data integration in Amarok.
> But IMHO that constitutes as loss of  out of the box features from previous
> releases.

Since you mention Amarok: the current Nepomuk integration into Amarok
is still only a technical preview that never worked correctly, mostly
due to the Nepomuk fallacies we all know about. From our POV you can
ditch Nepomuk for Baloo any time, this can be easily disabled in the
code and, if Baloo really is the long-expected answer to what makes
Nepomuk so bad, we will happily suggest a GSoC project to make Amarok
work with Baloo as it should.

FWIW: Amarok is not part of the SC releases anyway.

FWIW2: I am all for ditching Nepomuk from the ISO completely and only
suggest Baloo, and leave the user to decide if they still want to use
Nepomuk. It is their problem, then, not ours anymore :)

Regards, Myriam

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