Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th May 2008 12:59 UTC, submitted by Adam S
Back when Windows Vista was still known as Windows Longhorn, the operating system contained a very interesting and promising feature, a feature promoted as one of the 'pillars' of Longhorn: WinFS. WinFS was a storage subsystem for Windows, based on a relational database, that could contain whatever data you wanted to put in it. Thanks to the relational properties of the database, you could then create relationships between data, or let the computer do that for you.
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Nepomuk integration is one of the most exciting features of KDE4. OTOH I'm worried about implementing semantic attributes at such a high level. I mean, what happens if you log into, say, icewm, or console, instead of KDE, and move or rename a file? Can Nepomuk detect this change correctly the next time you log into KDE? In Windows the problem doesn't arise because there's only one desktop environment, but in GNU/Linux it seems that semantic features should be implemented below any DE, maybe with FUSE. I guess there must be a good answer, because people are actually using KDE4, but I haven't found it.