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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Member since:2005-07-06
Save me from software second-guessing my intention! That would be some sort of desktop hell as far as I'm concerned - at best it will be stupidly getting in my way, at worst it will try to actually run the show. No, thanks - "pretty much nothing" is exactly what I want my software to do until *I* say otherwise.
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2005-07-06
all in all kde and any other apps that tie into this could in theory learn your habits and patterns and predict what you want to do when something happens.
i recall reading about a similar system being tested out at microsoft, something about a mail app looking at the content of the mail and being able to set up meetings and so on based on that...
if it works, it will be like having a secretary that do what things before you tell her, as she have learned how you behave.
or if you want the funny interpretation, take a look at the early seasons of mash. radar pulls this on the colonel all the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_O%27Reilly