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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have you ever used a mac? on a mac, you only have one menu bar at the top and it changes based on the window that has focus ..at it simplicity, that is what he is saying ..having one thing(or a bunch of them) that changes based on what you are doing(or is happening)
for example, lets say you are working on 4 projects and you have 4 groups of people in your kopete contact list that you are collaborating with on your projects ..you can work on each project on a separate virtual desktop and with this, you can attach each group on your kopete contact list to a particular desktop and you will only see a particular group of people based on what you are doing .. effectively, you will use whatever he is talking about to have kopete responds to a particular desktop ..
the idea already exists in KDE, you can have amarok play a particular song when a particular user log in in kopete using dcop(and i think dbus in kde4) ..the idea is the same, they are just extending it to plasma ..