> Now that, I think, a lot more people know about Tracker because of this > thread, the best way to move forward isn't to push for inclusion in the > next release, since there's a fair amount of resistance to the idea, but > rather to move ahead and attempt to develop the technology with the > support of the incredible GNOME community.
I have been using tracker for a few months (since the move to sqlite) and think it is great. I also use Beagle (for email searches, and because its result tiles are more useful). I was under the impression that (features aside) because Tracker is written in C, there is greater chance that it could end up lower in the GNOME stack. Yes it has a DBus interface, and for 'search type' apps (nautilus, deskbar, etc) which query it DBus is probbably the easiest interface. However if it comes into the platform then I look forward to seeing some kind of libtracker-gtk library being written with; * A tagging widget * A media browsing widget (a treeview with Video, Music, Pictures, like the one you see in all apple iApps) * A tile derived widget for displaying a files metadata * Generic treeview/iconview/tile results widget * RDF manipulation functions * lots of other crack > So, rather than a Beagle vs. Tracker flamewar, let's hijack this thread > into a discussion on how indexed metadata fits into our future vision > for the GNOME desktop, and talk about how additional integration points > in the existing GNOME application set might improve the user experience. I think this is the chicken and the egg problem. If tracker comes into GNOME then that gives application authors a central place to store and lookup tags and metadata about objects. Being in GNOME gives the incentive/reason for a libtracker-gtk to exist, and it has the potential to make GNOME, desktop wide, more integrated. I suppose I can more clearly see the possibilities, and a roadmap on how to get there if Tracker is in GNOME. John _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
