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Fear and Loathing in KDE Land?

Full disclosure: My only contributions to KDE project are several bug reports and perhaps a few new users. So my qualifications to comment on the issue is of course almost non-existent. But hey, I've been a faithful KDE user for all these years, and so I think I have some right to make comments at least from a user's perspective. ------- There's been some discussions on KDE land regarding replacing Nepomuk (or Nepomuk-KDE for the politically correct) with a new project named Baloo . The Baloo project is headed by KDE developer Vishesh Handa, who apparently was very much involved in Nepomuk as well. Baloo wasn't announced officially to the 'public' till now, but thanks to recent Phoronix articles , it's been gaining some attention. The article titled "KDE's Nepomuk Doesn't Seem To Have A Future" went on to say: "It appears there isn't much of a future left to KDE's Nepomuk framework that was developed at a cos