
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."