Hi, On 10/31/07, jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 17:27 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > who knows how's xesam these days? is it still written in python? do > > search engines implement the xesam query spec? > > > > I think beagle has preliminary support for it but not sure how much it > covers
Beagle has an "adaptor" which translates Xesam requests into Beagle and marshals them back out. We've only implemented the server-side of things. AFAIK there's no conformance test for the spec, but Beagle covers most of it. There are a few things in the spec that Beagle doesn't support, but they're pretty minor. Also, AFAIK there are no search clients which implement the client-side of the spec other than the reference tools, and that's something that really needs to happen before Xesam can be considered a functional spec. The uptake has been pretty slow. I like the idea of adding gconf keys for launching the tools so that distros can customize to their preferred search system[1], but exposing it in the UI does feel a bit like bloat. Joe [1] At least SUSE-based distros are already patching Beagle in for gnome-search-tool; I suspect Ubuntu is probably doing something similar for Tracker. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
