Hi Kevin, > 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
Someone mentioned that in IRC, and he added "But tracker is only 'recommended', so I removed it immediately". So life can still go on if someone does not install tracker. BTW "installed by default" means ubuntu will install both beagle & tracker or only tracker ? The announcement email above is a bit confusing, it also mentions "KDE 4 beta 1" - surely that is not installed by default! > found anything, If anyone knows where the discussion happened/the > final reasoning behind the decision, it would be much appreciated. There was a blog (probably on monologue) which mentioned that there was no real discussion on this topic. But frankly I am not surprised. If you look at the bugs for beagle in the last 2 ubuntu releases, edgy specially went out with a really bad version of beagle. Top of that, there were lots and lots of examples of crashing in all the beagle apps - beagledaemon, indexhelper, buildindex. If you look at the stacktraces, they all crash in some underlying library like mono or glib, many at similar places. But neither the stacktraces could be deciphered enough to figure out what is the cause nor could the crashes be reproduced by any developer. We tried to do our best, without any success. Last I checked, even 0.2.17 crash reports were there. To add to that, tracker has this "just works" kind of feeling. Not enough features implemented, not many users or bla bla, whatever may be the reason, I have never seen people report too many problems with it. Beagle never misbehaves with me, but I suspect when thrown in the open, it does cause problems for a lot of people. At least thats what is reported. A lot of that is due to the really old version people are using, but in the end users are getting disappinted. The tagging is a nice feature and goes hand in hand with tracker goal of storing and managing all data of all apps anywhere in the galaxy. I dont quite believe this monopolistic idea and I personally dont see beagle storing application data for all apps on the desktop. Let apps manage their own data and let beagle access it nicely, beagle is merely a "personal data search service" and should be good at doing just that. So that kind of tagging cannot be directly added all inside beagle - a third party tagging infrastrucure is required. (BTW, Joe added support for tagging months ago, and blogged about it; so this kind of tagging can be done all within beagle, though I would vote against it.) And no, I still like beagle. Working on libbeagle gives me enough headache with "C", I am even scared to try tracker. - dBera -- ----------------------------------------------------- Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
