On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 21:21 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 18.08.09 21:09, Patryk Zawadzki ([email protected]) wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Lennart Poettering<[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > (I don't want to create the impression that I am opposed to the idea > > > of a desktop search engine. I actually do believe it makes sense, but > > > really, you need to do a better job selling the specific technology > > > tracker does.) > > > > Don't think of the RDF store as Google where you enter two words and > > get back top 10 results. Think of it as a database that has all kinds > > of weird relations for different objects. You could ask it for the > > last.fm track that was playing while you were looking at lolcat images > > on the second day od GCDS while chatting with people whose last name > > contained a lowercase "n" :) > > > > More real life examples: > > > > - show me all the party pics > > - give me files and data related to gnome bug #123 > > - list all the files I received from Lennart during the last week > > (over Jabber, e-mail etc.) > > Nice idea, but is this even realistic? How's a UI for this supposed to > look like? I mean, Google is so awesome because you type stuff in a > text field with only a minimal syntax requirements and will spit out > useful stuff. > > But how would you expose in the UI a search mask that allows you to > formulate queries like "give me files and data related to gnome bug > #123"? Are you planning to duplicate the bugzilla search form in the > GNOME Search interface? If that's the case, then wooooww, stop right > there! > Nat's dashboard could make sense for this, where you have related items to the stuff you're doing, like when you're writing a mail to Lennart, see all IM logs, mails, commits, etc related to that?
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