Hi, On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 18:22 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Tagging in fspot does not use leaftag afaik.
It doesn't, no. F-Spot predates Leaftag by several years. > Their metadata system appears to be based around something > called semweb. SemWeb is an RDF library. Tags are stored either in F-Spot's internal sqlite database or as a part of XMP metadata in the image itself. > Nautilus metadata is all xml based and not really shareable system wide. There's no API for it, no. > THeres no question we need a metadata server to sort out all this mess > so apps can interoperate with it. You've mentioned two apps which predate any tagging or other metadata system in GNOME. F-Spot uses a standard image metadata format when appropriate, and Nautilus uses a straightforward XML format that has been around for at least 6 years. I would hardly call this a mess. Applications do need to become richer, but Tracker isn't a silver bullet for this. > > These are fine ideas, but let's see them prototyped first, so we can > > make an informed decision about whether it's practical and works, rather > > than accepting it prima facie. > > thats why I am not asking for "tracker the database" to be considered at > this time. We do need these implemented and I will get round to them. But you're not offering to separate them. So what's the difference, really? Joe _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
