User talk:Harikrishna

User Context

This section is track the discussions on the implementation of "User Context" in KDE. For a more general discussion of context in Nepomuk, check out here.

Important aspects of context are where you are (location), what you are doing (activity), who you are with (contacts), and what resources and devices are nearby...

Typically Desktop applications and widgets have been available as just normal tools which are in no way more "intelligent" than their physical counterparts (ok, apart from their ability to undo things ;)

They have been heaped with functionality which adds to the clutter the user is already facing with the growing information-overload he already faces. so, something has to be done to change this !

Continuing the passion for desktop innovation with KDE, we want to induce in our apps the "intelligence" to adjust themselves to the work the user is currently doing. Hence ....

Dikku (meaning direction in Tamil; we generally establish of where we are heading based on direction. So, I think the name fits. Any suggestions ? ) is a user context framework that exposes the current user activity and location to both plasma widgets as well as other applications. But, as Nepomuk project has already handled the bulk of work by doing a lot of research in this area, we can just reuse whatever is possible from them (the beauty of open source !)...