On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:09 +1300, John Stowers wrote: > To be frank I see Tracker as the most interesting thing that has been > developed for GNOME. I am most excited to finally see tagging > available on the desktop (yes there was leaftag but that is now dead). > It is the first piece of infrastructure that smells like Topaz as well > as letting us play catchup to vista and OSX in terms of search - lets > give people something to be excited about.
I don't think you have to be a blessed dependency to get excited over new functionality, or to add it as an optional support via #ifdef to other software. gnome-power-manager was being shipped in 90% of the GNOME distros by default before it was accepted into the desktop set. Don't get me wrong, I think tracker *and* beagle are very cool, but until I can do all the stuff with tracker I can with beagle I know which one I would install by default. This is no critisism of effort or code quality, this is just an end user opinion. Grab some high-up redhat, suse, ubuntu distro people and ask them why they ship beagle by default and not tracker. If you can come up with a convincing argument, and one of the big three [1] start shipping the code then it becomes much easier convincing us difficult-to-please GNOME guys. :-) Richard. [1] No big discussion please, I couldn't list every big distro. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
