On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 16:30 +0000, jamie wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:07 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:43 +0000, jamie wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 08:29 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:14 +0000, jamie wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 21:19 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > > > > > El mar, 06-02-2007 a las 12:52 +1100, Russell Shaw escribió:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > If profiling has to be done to make a menu faster, it is pretty
> > > > > > > obvious
> > > > > > > the system it is built on is stupidly inefficient and broken,
> > > > > > > especially
> > > > > > > if said menu is slow on a 10 year old pc.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ah, bingo.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Almost 10 years ago, when GNOME started, we had like three apps we
> > > > > > wanted to put in the menus. So, reading .desktop files from disk
> > > > > > didn't
> > > > > > seem like a bad idea.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Now that we have hundreds of .desktop files, it is not a good idea
> > > > > > anymore to have them scattered all around the disk. You are
> > > > > > absolutely
> > > > > > right; the system it is built on is stupidly inefficient and broken!
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes and its fairly easily fixed with tracker once I add .desktop file
> > > > > indexing to it
> > > >
> > > > They are already indexed in beagle, so it would be fairly easy to do
> > > > this with libbeagle right now, but you'd still have to mimic all the
> > > > tree building code with the categorizations in gmenu.
> > >
> > >
> > > you would not have to do that with tracker - you could just say get me
> > > all apps in category X or app starts with "ev*".
> >
> > How do you display categories without knowing the categories? You have
> > to read the .menu file and you still construct the queries based on the
> > that query language. Are you really not going to cache that in memory?
>
> if the indexer has indexed them right and put them in sqlite then
> category list is simply:
>
> select distinct category from applications
So you propose to take:
<Menu>
<Name>VideoPlayer</Name>
<Directory>suse-multimedia-videoplayer.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Audio</Category>
<And>
<Category>AudioVideo</Category>
<Category>Player</Category>
<Category>Video</Category>
<Not><Category>X-SuSE-Jukebox</Category></Not>
</And>
</Include>
<Exclude>
<Filename>realplay.desktop</Filename>
</Exclude>
</Menu>
put VideoPlayer as a category in the applications table? I suppose that
would work, but when it comes to displaying, you'll have to stick it all
in memory anyhow.
<snip tangential points btree vs hash is too simplistic since lucene has
indexes used for wildcard queries>
-JP
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JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Novell, Inc.
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