Shaun McCance wrote: > I wonder what you consider to be important stuff. I have a number > of types of files on my computer that I consider important. They > are important to me, even other people don't think the file types > are important.
its not so much a problem of metadata extraction or text extraction cause we do this out of process so plug-ins could be used here > > We can't possibly expect Tracker to handle every file format under > the sun. Beagle doesn't, Spotlight doesn't, and I'm sure whatever > thing Vista is doing doesn't. But what they provide is a way for > external application to provide indexers for their file formats. > And ISDs are doing this. (Insert admonition about how we'd get > better third-party buy-in with a cross-desktop solution.) we wont except in-process stuff as these could crash tracker - if they can be done externally then no problem. > > Personally, I'm excited about having actual metadata alongside full > text indexes. I think you can get much richer queries, and there's > more potential for application interaction. But that also means we > have to allow even more flexibility for third-party integration. > > I'm not saying Tracker can't do any of this. I'm asking if it can. > Your proposal is sort of the buzzword-compliant boss version. I'd > really like the hacker version. What does Tracker actually do, and > what can we actually do with it? see page : http://live.gnome.org/ResearchAndDevelopment/Tracker -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
