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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2006-01-02
Spot on! Sebastian Trueg, main nepomuk-kde author, is working on this issue right now and his solution is indeed based on inotify. See:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/nepomuk-kde/filewatch/
Given the KDE schedule, I suppose that this is KDE 4.2 material. Note that this is very very badly needed as currently if you copy a file even inside konqueror/dolphin, the metadata is lost, see:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161403
Re GNOME integration, the great thing about Nepomuk is it's an abstract, open specification, of which nepomuk-kde is just the kde implementation, but nothing prevents GNOME devs to implement a nepomuk-gnome the way they like, based on their own frameworks etc.