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
Nothing will be forced upon you. First of all, context switches have to be done manually. If no alternative context is set up, it's like before.
Secondly, KDE is known for its configurability. So even if at some day in the future, KDE will feature automatic context detection, nobody will be forced to use it.
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2005-07-12
Ah, so you mean all the stuff I hate about working on a Mac and all the stuff I hated when they did it to Windows (like the so called 'personalized menus')