-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, maybe I'm woefully behind, and everyone already knows this, but Ubuntu has decided to install tracker by default in the next release, as announced in this mail: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-August/000321.html
While I've been on something of a hiatus for a good chunk of the summer, I must have missed the debate/argument. I've been checking most of the places I expected it to happen in launchpad, but I haven't found anything, If anyone knows where the discussion happened/the final reasoning behind the decision, it would be much appreciated. As far as a realistic comparison to Tracker (from the 'as-informed-as-I-can-be-based-on-current-trunks' perspective) I really can't see any evidence to this constant assertion that Tracker can match Beagle for features, it seems that lots of cool support is _planned_ but not a whole lot of it is implemented. However, one feature that I have wanted to implement for ages, and have made several futile attempts at, is to offer object tagging live in the search interface. Its not the easiest feature in the world to describe, so here's a short screencast of Trackers implementation (you also gotta admit, the new tracker search interface is damn sexy, even if you still have very limited options for actions on a result) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4935839966938603234&hl=en Anyways, If I could get some help implementing the GUI side of it, I would be more than willing to hook everything up to our current nautilus emblem backend. The only issue right now is that Nautilus doesn't care what beagle has stored as emblems, so we would either need to push that data down to the XML nautilus speaks, dbus into nautilus in some way to let it know, or just write a simple nautilus extension. Either way, since, no one uses trackers tagging info at the moment, it doesn't really matter if we have that feature immediately, but we would need it in the long term. Anyways, let me know if anyone thinks this is worth implementing (I'm thinking a good way for me to refamiliarize myself with the beagle codebase), and if we know its worth implementing, then preferably some advice on where/how would be best to proceed in terms of the GUI. One last thing, I do want to apologize for my lack of diligence on the Ubuntu front, I know that (before my absence) I was becoming something of the Ubuntu contact for Beagle, and I really should have at least caught wind that a tracker v. beagle debate was going to happen and notified someone, even if I couldn't address it myself. Cheers, Kevin Kubasik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBRs1Xbf3xZFNDM330AQIm3A/9GKHlhc+3h9I7P9H6HRz7grFLSn6rqzaB i1xUZQXucJafjusgtwau5ehDStZ3/b4AWDNcs+3FGBuLyGuL+zXRJSyKBG7X38ze Y2PY218t/mguy45eo/OMtoMc0HhYFJiz/uy5iGic6oUDyEr5cVXom28OxOFBK/n3 Rz4fp2JhXwHgDtYM1aCcAXzi/mN+uwCKBlZ0pT+tO4hSd1zP2yBTPO75XW11NUGv SlQsBN1sLj09+3UdJazDHu4xsbTWp3QFgnamBsYvBGQll7qRQqZvI96tFPOZsQu+ b5VlpvFMnLNtJWN9GCh4lsC2oRciPATY+Hdp/UvfcAAbecf1+HY9G5nUlQuYXtgA smJkJDADndatR4VtoNpX4P6BLgtoGTDcp2zcg71Y0w0SIEEzuTshyFsYe1CRX8tw laQ6bs6co95gGf9DV2txfYCcnSWQdcU7rIYPqrjY+eVJuuXWd6C73Qap3fYuy644 2Xx73X9jgLYU2acfS7DHFEV2ydgSnSNYRDpT8s/Hyd8uxc71CjPvFYvXlIRGZMpf Yb+a+TSgXGj9KgVgc6L714w79kXEQzJNQ8a4PPmrkLDIPXzEB38hCX2UsDHi9D15 xhL9SA83z/5q0/hViPkcVM44rrfzqhJSXGsE0Fqfe4aprUH337m1FDERsefe/yG7 L5dfTBIPz7k= =4X4U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
