since a week I have moved the current MetaData Extractor into KDE Review and tagged it with 0.3. As you might have read, Jason moofang already blogged about his anime changes in the extractor plugins.
A few things that changed in my side since the last release:
- Limit the background processes that will fetch the data at the same time
- Disable the Nepomuk2::Service on first run.
This means the user has to activate it in the KCM to make it work and it won't fetch data for all files once it is installed - Allow to specify which resource types should be used in the automatic fetching (documents, videos, music)
- Add a general configuration KCM to the system settings module
- Save not processed queries on kde shut down and start them again next time
- Added a docbook to explain most parts of the UI
- Fix several bugs and crashes
- Allow to restrict online searches to preferred plugins only and not fetch all the other plugins if the lookup failed
In its current state the extractor respects the users privacy as much as possible and can still be configured to do all its magic in the background. Beside the service changes it is always possible to start the extractor from the Dolphin service menu manually.
Another thing that will change is the name of the program.
When I've started this project (mostly as a helper for conquirere) there was already a project named Nepomuk WebExtractor in playground. As it seems this project is dead, the name will be available again.
The name MetaData Extractor might be misleading too. This program does not extract information from files (other than filename analysing for better search parameters) but only rather find additional data on the Internet.
So possible new names are:
- Nepomuk-WebExtractor
- File Metadata Extractor
- File Metadata Retriever
- File Metadata Miner
If you like to test the latest changes, you can find the in kdereview
