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

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote:
> Am Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:18:42 +0000
> 
> schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
> > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:03:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote:
> > > IMO, mandatory semantic-desktop is a very good reason to find
> > > another desktop manager (even after being my primary desktop for 7
> > > years).
> > 
> > It's so mandatory it takes a whole mouse click to turn it off :(
> 
> If you do not want a piece of software, why should you install it?
> Installing and not using it instead of not installing it at all, is the
> wrong way and (to my opinion) it is defintely not the Gentoo way.
>  Well, I have drawn the conclusions and got rid of kmail and am on the
> verge of migrating the whole desktop. I loved kde-3.5, I seriously
> tried kde-4.*, but I could never befriend with it. And one point I
> detaste is that "Social Semantic Desktop" thing (as Nepomuk is
> characterized on its afore mentioned wikipedia page). For me it is just
> another instance of what Kant called "selbstverschuldete
> Unmündigkeit" (self-incurred immaturity).

sure. Be able to tag and quickly find information is immature.

Question, when you have KDE installed and some app pulls in gconf or gvfs - do 
you throw the same temper tamtrum?