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KDE's Next Generation Semantic Search

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For years, KDE software has included a semantic (relationship-based) searching infrastructure. Since its implementation, our developers received and digested a lot of feedback. Much work was put into improving the speed of indexing, keeping it out of the way of users and making Search more reliable.

The upcoming release of KDE Applications (version 4.13) will introduce the next step in the effort to improve the performance and stability of search features in KDE software. The improved Semantic Search is lighter on resources and more reliable than it was previously, but, thanks to considerable reuse of existing code, it is mature and offers a complete feature set.

Read on to find out more about the improvements to KDE's search, tagging and semantic technologies.


KDE Commit-Digest for 12th January 2014

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • KDM has been removed
  • KDE-PIM improves the attachment editor; better ability to switch between inline and linked attachments, allows undo/redo archive mail
  • Skrooge adds options in "Income & Expenditure" dashboard widget
  • Nepomuk adds Baloo migrator
  • KGeography porting to KF5 in progress
  • Bug fixes in KDevelop and more.

Read the rest of the Digest here.


KDE Commit-Digest for 22nd December 2013

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • KStars adds support to online plate solving using astrometry.net web services API, optimizes memory usage
  • Umbrello adds duplication of diagrams
  • KWin adds an option in oxygenrc to disable window background
  • Krita adds thumbnail support for kra and ora files
  • Numerous bug fixes in KMix.

Read the rest of the Digest here.


KDE Commit-Digest for 15th December 2013

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • Marble adds support for cyclestreets.net bicycle routing, showing journey duration for OSRM routing
  • KHelpcenter adds alphabetical sorting for modules and category reorganization to make it easier to use
  • Akonadi speeds up appending new items
  • Plasma improves change wallpaper animation
  • Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 effort includes porting and enabling SMB kioslave to Qt5/KF5.

Read the rest of the Digest here.


KDE Commit-Digest for 8th December 2013

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

  • Artikulate enables initial learner profile support
  • Marble gets implementation of movie capturing
  • Calligra gains Apple Keynote document import filter
  • Choqok gets initial Pump.io implementation
  • KWin improves icon handling: uses a QIcon in client for the icons instead of Pixmaps and now all sizes are available in one QIcon allowing easy access the best fitting one
  • Plasma improves crash recovery for plasma-shell
  • KNotes is converted to Akonadi
  • Interesting work in progress: server-side search in Akonadi, online banking including sending credit transfers in KMyMoney.

Read the rest of the Digest here.


KDE Commit-Digest for 1st December 2013

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

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