Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 5th Sep 2008 21:47 UTC, submitted by KugelKurt
KDE's Aaron Seigo has published a blog post in which he details how Nepomuk and the semantic desktop can be beneficial to users. He introduces the concepts of "context" and "context switches" - possible states are "writing an OSNews news item", or "posting a blog entry", or "editing your MySpace page". When you switch from one of these contexts to another, it's called a context switch, according to Seigo. "What happens with the rest of the software running on your computer when you switch contexts?" Seigo answers his own question. "Pretty much nothing. At least not automatically."
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... or is the whole blog post pretty much very cute gibberish? Maybe I'm having some wierd other worldly comprehension problem with it, but for the most part it doesn't actually SAY anything.
But then that seems to be my whole reaction to this 'semantic desktop' nonsense. I neither see the appeal, nor how it would make it 'easier', nor how any of this seems the least bit useful.
I don't get it... and with close to three decades of computing under my belt, I would at least HOPE to understand some of it even if I disagree.
But what do I know? I consider Win98 the pinnacle of UI design and everything since to be either goofy eye-candy rubbish, functionality downgrades, annoying, or just plain bloat.
Edited 2008-09-05 22:04 UTC