The KDE 4.5 Semantic Desktop

“My last article I spoke about the new KDE Activities features
Search and Launch Containment Activity (see my article “Using the
KDE 4.5 Search and Launch Containment Activity”). This is the first
visible sign of KDE’s use of the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop. Nepomuk
is a system that uses metadata throughout the desktop to aid in
file search and peer to peer collaboration. So far the project has
yet to reach its full potential (as it is quite new to the
desktop).

“Strigi, on the other hand, is the desktop search daemon that
runs on the KDE desktop. It is these two components that help to
create the KDE 4.5 Semantic Desktop (a desktop who’s data is easily
shared between components). In this article I will introduce you to
these two components and how you interact with them to make your
KDE desktop as fluid as possible.”

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