Re: No more talking about Nepomuk to end users

Hi all,

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> In KDE PIM (during the meeting last year in Osnabrück) it was decided that
> it would make sense to stop talking about Akonadi to the public. First of
> all, because Akonadi has gotten a bad rep and second, because it's a
> technical detail that makes no sense for end users.
>
> Work has been put in to remove mentions of Akonadi (and Nepomuk) from the
> KDE PIM UI and to refer instead to the 'KDE PIM backend'.
>
> I don't remember how much, if at all, this was discussed here. I think I
> wrote a mail but that's probably it. If so I'd hereby like to propose to do
> the same to Nepomuk. It's a technical detail and in announcements and the
> like it shouldn't be discussed. It's fine for blogs and other developer
> centric communication.
>
> I already wrote the announcement this way, not thinking about the fact that
> this was never discussed, and noticed somebody added 'Nepomuk' to all
> mentions of the 'semantic storage backend'. Noticing how uncomfortable it
> looks to talk about "nepomuk (semantic storage and search backend)" or
> "semantic storage and search backend (nepomuk)", I thought this might be a
> good time :D
>
> As far as I can tell, this change has already been done in a few places in
> the UI: I see the applet mention 'search', 'desktop search' or 'search
> service'. The menu of the applet still mentions 'Nepomuk controller' and the
> window shows 'Nepomuk Repository details', as does the control module (which
> is, however, for 'desktop search') so it'd be nice to have Vishesh and other
> Nepomuk devs on board on this to start change this in the UI as well.
>
> What do others think?

That will only cause a problem: there are other services using
Nepomuk, not just KDE PIM. We only just started shipping Amarok with
the Nepomuk plugin, and I am sure that calling that a KDE PIM backend
is just wrong. You will have to find a better name, I don't think
KDE-PIM backend is a suitable name at all.


Regards, Myriam

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