Introduction

The realease note of Nepomuk Foxtrot 0.9

NOTE: Pyxpcomext is required to be installed before run Nepomuk Foxtrot, which brings Python support for mozilla extensions. It can downloaded from http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org/downloads.html. For more info about Python extension, please visit http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org/_

1. What does Nepomuk-Foxtrot bring us?

Nepomuk-Foxtrot is one of the three parts of the Nepomuk project. Nepomuk-Foxtrot brings Firefox the semantic functions. The annotation can be easily managed due to the Nepomuk storage in KDE4.1.

2. System Requirements

• Firefox 3.0 or newer
• KDE 4.1 environment with the nepomukserver process running
• org.kde.NepomukStorage service (usually launched by nepomukserver)
• If you have some problems, please make sure the KDE 4.1 Packages are up-to-date. Especially the package soprano. The latest version of soprano is 2.1.1.
• If you're using Mandriva 2009.0 Beta2 or RC1, you must install the packages libredland0 and libraptor1. Otherwise, Nepomuk doesn't work by default. Beta1 users do not have this problem.
• Pyxpcomext, which brings Python support for mozilla extensions. It can downloaded from http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org/downloads.html. For more info about Python extension, please visit http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org/.

3. Installation

We recommend you to download the XPI installation file from our Download page to install it. (http://code.google.com/p/nepomuk-mozilla/downloads/list)

After you downloaded the file nepomuk-foxtrot-0.9.xpi, just open Firefox and click "Open File..." in the "File" menu or use the shortcut Ctrl+O. Then find the file you have just downloaded and click Open. It will be installed automatically. Before it works, a restart of firefox is required.

4. New Features in version 0.9

In this realease, we have some big changes and improvements:

• All of the properties in Property list is clickable, and will show the related resource on click.

• Ontoloy browser

Not only display the names of properties and class any more. Two seperated tree for properties and classes to show the clear structure of the selected ontoloy in the list. Both properties and classes are in alphanumeric order.

• Flexable relation creation

Customized statement can becreated according to current property.

• Some tiny optimizations for a few functions.

5. Use case DEMO

A complete demostration of an use case is available on Youtube:

Part 1---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cVwHKs8rzw

Part 2---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8w2BUla0Rs

A full video with high quality decoded in Xvid can be downloaded by the following URL:

http://nepomuk-mozilla.googlecode.com/files/Nepomuk-Foxtrot.avi

Nepomuk-Foxtrot Team

YANG Chenguang & JEAN Nicolas