On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:34 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > We can quibble about an odd metadata field not being present ad > infinitum and its unlikely we will have all possible values by > default > in the spec but it does not matter as such because tracker is > extensible > so theres no limit in adding extra items in future.
As a bloke who's had a bit of software included in the last gnome release, I can tell you it's easier for the distros to ship something and then argue that it should be part of Gnome, rather than the other way around. I've used beagle before and was impressed with the speed, but not impressed with the memory usage. It also took up large chunks of my 2.2 gig processor when indexing so I wonder what it would do to a sub GHz PC. I've been trying tracker for the last few days, and I can confirm it uses an order or magnitude less memory and doesn't seem to add noticeable cpu load in normal use. Search results come up also very quickly (<1s), but maybe not as quick as beagle. Both solutions find the data that I'm looking for. So for me, two thumbs up for tracker and one thumb up for beagle.[1] I can't really comment on the C# vs C discussion although I know what I would prefer running as a daemon. Either way, we need a search *infrastructure* in GNOME soon, else we will fall very far behind OSX and Vista. Richard. [1] I only have two hands, but you get the idea. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
