On Tuesday 26 August 2008 21:31:41 Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On my Mandriva laptop I have a panel icon marked 'Desktop Search'. It > > doesn't exist on my Fedora box. In systemsettings > Advanced > Nepomuk > > it tells me that strigi is not running. Is this the problem? I'd really > > like to see this working on the Fedora box, but can't find any clues as > > to what call is needed. > > Nepomuk is basically the service which does the search and Strigi is the > indexer which feeds data about files into the Nepomuk database. > > There is currently a packaging/policy issue wit Nepomuk since the preferred > database engine is Java based and distributors do not want to add > dependencies on Java. > > Since Mandriva is a major sponsor of Nepomuk (they are one of the companies > in the respective EU research program and their employee Sebastian Trüg is > the main Nepomuk-KDE developer) they probably jsut decided to accept the > additional dependency or ship the low-performane Redland backend. > Hmm. That certainly explains it, but Fedora can't afford to be without this, so I guess we'll have to wait to see how the problem is resolved. Thanks for answering. Anne
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