Re: Yet Another Troubled KMail2 Migration Successful (Maybe) (For Now)

On Saturday, July 06, 2013 07:07:08 PM Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 10:08:19 AM you wrote:
> > That is not true. If nepomuk mail indexing is turned on and the nepomuk
> > service is running, we use it. Otherwise we fall back to keeping the whole
> > address book in memory for searching.
> 
> Why not go with just the later (keep in mem). Surely that would make for
> simpler code.

There a number of reasons:

- in-memory search doesn't scale to large address books (LDAP, etc.)
- doing the searching client side means every searching client has to 
duplicate the information in memory (the old addressbook lead to 5 or more 
copies)
- there are many use cases for addressbook searching outside of the actual 
address book
- it's faster (when it actually) works
- it can support semantic search ("give me the guy I sent the attachment with 
the word "spongebob" in the title to last week") 
- it can support semantic tagging
- supports higher level contact merging (like KPeople)
- various smaller bits and pieces

Simpler is, well, simpler ;)

Till

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