At 4pm the meeting started, while people were coming in, we started an introduction round. It struck me that there are many different area’s people are working on, not only Amarok is present,but also people from Digikam, Dolphin, Telepathy, Raptor, etc. All seem to have different use cases for Nepomuk.

For example Raptor wants to keep track of how many times an applications has been started and when that was. This way they can probably adjust the menu to what you use most. Telepathy wants to use Nepomuk to keep track of your contacts, which are meta contacts and what way can they be reached. In the end you just want to say ‘I want to chat with my mother’, and it should simply find out if that’s possible. Really, the user does not really care of that happens via Jabber, MSN or -ftw- Skype. You do want an order in that of course ;-). You see, completely different use cases.

After the introduction round, I started hacking on Mailody. I’ve replaced the boring tag widget, with the widget which Dolphin uses. Apart from the requirement to svn cp the widgets and creating duplication, the task was pretty quickly done. I still need to fix some small issues, but I’ve time enought for that. So it’s now possible to rate emails and add comments to them. Next thing I want to do is a small popup when hovering over items, not sure I manage to do that this weekend.

I’m hungry, but I seem to be alone in that. We’ll go to the city Real Soon Now I hope.

Not sure what it is with German ICE’s, but always when i use them,,I get the urge to write a blog. Probably due to the fact that I get bored in them, there are power sockets and stuff happening around you. Today a large scream of one of the Bahn employees asked rather loudly who owned the folded bicycle near the door. One passenger hesitated but raised his hand. From the back the employee continued to scream to that passenger that the bicycle needs a ‘bag’ and started to tell him he should have read the fine prints. Anyhow the passenger was told to get a ‘bag’ or leave the train at the next stop. Come on, at these moments I’m feel shamed to be a human, it really makes me wonder if I fit in The Netherlands or Germany. Maybe I would feel better at home in some country that’s much more relaxed at these things. Anyhow, the passenger fetched a bag -normally used to throw away trash, and the crises was averted. Phew.

I’m en route to Freiburg, which seems to be close to Basel. There the Nepomuk meeting will kick off around 4pm. I’ve prepared my home computer to have the latest KDE trunk with Nepomuk fully active, I first tried the virtuoso backend, but that seemed a bad idea, the sesame2 backend seems to work fine though. I fixed Mailody to be able to tag messages again, and hopefully you can also add comments to mails at the end of this weekend.

I also need to rethink what I want to do with Mailody exactly. It is very tempting to make one application which can deal with Mail, News, RSS and Microblogs – just because I can do that with Akonadi. It also fits the concept of folders with items in there, so it should not be to hard to do. The question is if that will result in a nice application which fulfills all my information needs, or if that will result in a huge monster with all kinds of hacks in there to facilitate the tiny differences between those information flows.