Re: No more talking about Nepomuk to end users

On Monday, 2013-01-21, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> 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.

Probably a misunderstanding.
I think Jos is referring to the replacement of "Akonadi" in the KDE PIM 
context and suggests we do the same with "Nepomuk" in the semantic desktop and 
search context.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring


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