[Xesam] Meaning of xesam:url

Sebastian Trüg strueg at mandriva.com
Wed Aug 6 00:59:39 PDT 2008


On Wednesday 06 August 2008 06:51:49 Michael Albinus wrote:
> Sebastian Trüg <strueg-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> writes:
> > In Nepomuk I use an identifier string value which can be set to anything
> > that allows the application to identify the email or whatever. xesam:url
> > is only used for files, actually to store their path (like strigi does)
> > but here I agree that a URL would be better.
> > So for emails for example I would say: no xesam:url at all. That should
> > only be used for files (local or remote).
>
> An email is stored usually in a file. A Xesam client might try to
> present the email; the file location is necessary then. Therefore, I

not true. Emails can be stored on an imap server or, like it will be the case 
with KDE soon, in some local server. It is actually not very typical anymore 
to have emails stored in files. And focussing Xesam to only handle stuff from 
local files means to restrict it majorly.

> would prefer, if xesam:url contains *always* the file location, either
> locally (as file:///...), or somewhere remote.
>
> And xesam:url shall contain *only* the file location, and no other
> information.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Sebastian
>
> Best regards, Michael.




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