Jamie McCracken wrote: > Iain * wrote: >> On 1/11/07, John Stowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> This is the second time the bonobo comparison has been made. >>> >>> Developers got excited about bonobo - users thought they were monkeys. >>> What we have here is a HEAP of excited users screaming for desktop >>> search. I dont think the two situations can be compared at all. >> The comparison is valid because we're doing the same with tracker as >> we did with bonobo: Searching for places we can put Tracker before we >> know what we want or need: "We want desktop search" is a rather >> general statement that says nothing about requirements. >> >> I'm not saying that desktop search is a bad thing and that no-one >> wants it. I'm just saying "How do we know Tracker is the correct >> solution?" >> >> I think I'm going round in circles here, so I'll stop. >> >> On another point entirely, why was tracker support not added to >> gnome-search-tool? Why was there a need for it to be forked into >> tracker-search-tool? With a patch to g-s-t you wouldnt need to be in a >> place where this unknown program was replacing a well used, and >> well-tested one. >> > > 95% of the same well tested code is still there. We forked G-S-T so we > could add more facilities like the search snippets which were more > appropriate to an indexer. We will also be adding support for non-files > soon (like emails) and that would not be appropriate for G-S-T either. > > The bonobo issue is a red herring - we are not proposing tracker for the > platform. Bonobo was, as you rightly say, imposed on the platform > without much thought. There is nothing in common here with tracker.
And just to make it clear how bogus the comparison is: As tracker would be in the desktop, if it transpired that it was deeply flawed and a much better implementation came along then it could be easily swapped out. Bonobo as a platform element is in for good while we maintain api/abi compatibility and thats why its such a problem for us. It cannot be removed only deprecated. The important thing here is we do net let fear limit innovation in our *desktop*. For the platform, yes we must be very careful what we include here but lets keep our heads on! -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
