Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?
On 12 May 2010 09:58, Ferdinand Thommes <devil@sidux.com> wrote:
>> > Nepomuk / Strigi need to improve a *lot*.
> yes, for sure
It has, it's down to 2 MB of memory in KDE 4.5.
>> What version? Strigi in 4.4 seems rather usable, those issues sound
>> like familiar 4.3 issues.
>
> The whole virtuoso/strigi ensemble needs a lot of polishing. It is not ready
> for simple usage yet.
> I have spent some days fiddling with that stuff based on my own experience and
> feedback i got from users at sidux.
> The best way i found to have a usable index is:
> - stop nepomuk and strigi in systemsettings
> - move away or delete everything in:
> ~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend
> (there might be incompatible database from virtuoso 5.x in there)
> - out and back in to your account
> - start nepomuk andv strigi
> - let it do the indexing
> - test (in dolphin, krunner is unreliable atm) your index
> - see if e.g. files under kmail got indexed
>
> for me to have a complete index i had to do 5 runs of strigi.
> in the first 3 runs it would not even touch any dot files under .kde
> in the end it works fine now but popular searches use a lot of ram.
>
Please test Strigi and Nepomuk in KDE Trunk / 4.5, and if you have
problems let me know or file issues. It's all been heavily reworked
and should really be usable now.
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Dotan Cohen
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