Dan Winship wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 21:26 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >> First to clarify, tracker is not a dedicated indexer (like Beagle and >> Strigi) but is first and foremost a database which has indexing as a >> side feature. > > Are there any *currently existing* GNOME applications that make use of > tracker's data store?
not as yet but they are being planned Has there been any interest coming *from > application authors* for porting their apps to use the tracker data > store? yes RhythmBox maintainer is quite happy to use tracker as its common music database and as Rhythmbox is not part of gnome desktop it only needs his permission. Hes also built a plugin for rhythmbox to get music files from tracker: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2006-October/msg00176.html You talked about porting epiphany to store its bookmarks in > tracker, but I can't find anything evidence either that (a) you've > actually tried this yet and verified that it works well, the spec for that is not finished but yes it will work well from what I can see. I cant go ahead and implement this without tracker either being in the Desktop or an approved dependency so its on the back burner until thats sorted out. or (b) any of > the epiphany developers has expressed any interest in adopting tracker > as a bookmark storage (regardless of whether or not tracker is accepted > into GNOME). see thread : http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01410.html > > (For a contrast, look at Leaftag, which only does a tiny subset of what > tracker promises, but which the deskbar and tomboy maintainers were both > quite excited about integrating with > (http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-03-06/deskbar-and-leaftag-last-exit, > http://beatniksoftware.com/pipermail/tomboy-list_beatniksoftware.com/2006-March/001119.html) > That's the sort of real-world evidence that people are looking for > here.) the maintainer of leaftag told me he wants to concentrate on front end tools and let tracker manage the backend if it gets into Gnome. > > If indexing is only a "side feature" of tracker, and no one is using any > of its "real" features, then tracker is completely unproven technology. tracker is being used as a nautilus search and deskbar backend so its already integrated in Gnome. The only thing slowing down further integration is getting into gnome or being an accepeted dependency - hopefully a chicken and egg situation can be avoided here -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
