Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote:
> >> On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >> > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote:
> >> >> Hello list,
> >> >> when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs
> >> >> kdelibs compiled with USE="semantic-desktop" and cannot be told to
> >> >> not use it. But I do not like the idea of semantic desktop and I
> >> >> will not install it.
> >> >
> >> > you don't even now what that is. Right?
> >> >
> >> > You just don't use 'it' and you are fine. Btw, I am sure you already
> >> > have it installed with soprano.
> >>
> >> My understanding is the semantic-desktop is just the latest incarnation
> >> of kde's clone of google desktop search which just wastes CPU, memory,
> >> and
> >> disk space.  Personally I don't see the need for this technology as I'm
> >> perfectly happy waiting a few seconds on "find" every few months.
> >
> > your understanding is wrong. Completely wrong. Seriously it hurts.
> >
> > start here:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(framework)
> >
> > and then proceed with the links.
> >
> > google-desktop is something completley different (and something that can
> > be replaced with find, locate and grep).
>
> Well, in 4.3.x I eliminated it after the first try, because it took so many
> resources of my machine, that I could not use it for something else. So,
> you mean, in 4.4.x it takes only a 10% of the resources it took with
> 4.3.x? LOL, although I really like the idea of the semantic desktop, I
> rather have a usable machine ...
>
> - Jörg

I don't know what load it creates because I never even have any negative 
impact. Yes, there is some nepomuk stuff sleeping in the background and it has 
zero impact on my desktop behaviour.