John Stowers wrote: > On 10/24/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> <quote who="Jamie McCracken"> >> >>> sorry, is anything else still unclear? >> Go back to my mail, read it again, and start from the beginning. What is it, >> what does it do, why is it important? Tell us a story with an elevator pitch >> and use cases, not an essay with hypotheticals. > > OK I am not the developer, but from the perspective of a user of > tracker, here is an elevator pitch; > > Tracker helps you find and organize your stuff. > > Imagine downloading a mp3 file to have it automatically have it appear > in Rhythmbox, complete with artist and track information. Imagine > shooting a photo on your digital camera, and to have it appear in > f-spot, without having to be imported. Like tagging? tracker lets you > apply tags to files, freeing you from an endless heirarchy of folders. > > Tracker not only allows you to search for files based upon whats > inside them, but also by properties which describe them (metadata). > Tracker is smart, by treating files as first class objects it knows > that Photos have widths, while Music files have artists. Tracker knows > that documents have authors and Videos have durations. > > Want to find photos taken with you Nikon digital camera? no problem!. > Want to find all Openoffice documents created in december, with more > than 10 pages, containing the word cheese? no problem. Tracker can do > it. > > Tracker is; > * Small - <5mb ram, great for low end systems. > * Fast - 100s of searches per second will not slow your computer, > drain your battery or eat your cat. > * Standards compliant - want to write a gnome app in bash? no problem, > tracker has a dbus interface > > Tracker is the glue that helps developers connect GNOME together, and > the reason users will love the GNOME platform. > > John >
John, thats fab! - the position of tracker Marketing Manager is yours if you want it! -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
