Sabbatical

Like all normal people, (and I hope I am within one standard deviation of some "normal") I have to reassess my priorities on a constant basis. I have to think about the usefulness of this project for me and, quite impornant, for the general public.

This applet is concieved as a solution to a specific problem - a problem that suddenly seems less and less accute:

1. I must write a stream-ripper for MPEG2-capable /dev/video0 of my TV card. None of the solutions I found work or fit me. The current way of "cat /dev/video0 > file" cannot schedule an automatic stop, or, multiply the channel for simultaneous rec / view. I fall asleep and find my HD completely out of space in the morning. I must fix this situation first.

2. I am tracking the progress of both kio-clucene and kat. My hope is that they'll be able to index the kaddressbook themselves. Then, the whole community will just write a good matter-agnistic search front-ends for them. Seeing Kat support clucene db in latest beta - I think this is chugging along just fine towards being a better solution to the original problem and kaddressamba's reason to exist.

3. SuperKaramba is Python-based and has specific API. Plasma will be (initially) JavaScript-based and who knows what API it will have. Coding something that is cool but "redundant" and old-on-arrival makes this yet less appealing for me.

The bullet points don't make the project dead, but, rather, unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Thus, it will lie "GUI-less" for a while.