========================================================================================================================== (Forwarding a discussion I had with Peter in private email, it's interesting for general consumption as well) On Saturday 22 May 2010 19:08:06 Peter Schiffer wrote: On 05/22/2010 03:34 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: On Saturday 22 May 2010 00:23:40 Peter Schiffer wrote: Thanks, and likewise :-) I really enjoyed reading your blog and watching the screencast. BTW, the use case to manually enter the geolocation is actually to check something in a place you're planning to go. Happens quite regularly to me, e.g. on a train, to find out about connecting trains before arrival, or weather information at my destination. Cheers, I'm glad you enjoyed my blog. Checking for trip destination is another use case for manual location setting I didn't mention on my blog. It can be quite handy as you said. Maybe we can use Akonadi in between the dataengine and libgeoweb, it provides access to network resources and offers caching, synching, etc. If we can add offline capabilities to libgeoweb this way, that'd simply rock the boat. (Think of roaming, you pre-load all kinds of information (routes, interesting restaurants, maps, train schedules, etc) onto your device before you leave, at home, where bandwidth is free (or comparatively cheap), then you travel abroad and don't need to get expensive roaming access for a couple of handy things you don't want to miss -- compelling. Akonadi is data agnostic, so it can deal with any kind of data, not just PIM information, and it's being readied for mobile usecases as well. I have a vague memory that there's a GSoC Project going on right now that basically provides transparant caching to dataengines, using akonadi. That might be interesting to keep an eye one. That said, I just returned from a business trip a couple of hours ago, and haven't had the time to actually try all your cool stuff. I'll have some spare cycles this weekend though, I'll give it a whirl. I'm quite curious now. :) Akonadi looks like good idea as caching could be more than welcome. I'll try to check it out. I am planning to make something like location profiles, where you can set multiple places and easily switch between them. (e.g. work, school, home..). Later, switching can be automatic, lets say according to you IP or wifi network actually connected to.. But that is quite a future for now... :) You're not alone. In fact, in KDE 4.5 we have the first bits of the semantic activities which would use Nepomuk to store, connect and interleave those profiles. It's a bit late to go into details there right now though, but the basic stuff entered trunk and is available now, 4.5 material. I think this is the thing these profiles should be built on, as it all has a lot to do with "context" (as vague as that may sound). That sounds great. I can try to use Nepomuk as well. Btw, this discussion should really be available to others, mind if I forward and CC: kde- ... @kde.org ? Not at all, this should be on mailing list. Okay, added to CC: :-) -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Kde-silk mailing list Kde- ... @kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-silk
