On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 20:14 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Shotwell is widely deployed and used, it has a team of people working on it, > > and a commercial backer. These are VERY important things, prolly the most > > important things to take into account, you worry too much about the data > > store technologies, Tracker is great, but it is by no means the only > > accepted data store in the desktop. > > The point is that we already use Tracker in GNOME (Documents and Boxes > depend on it) and I don't see any reason for existing apps to stop > using it and while we could compromise on some code-duplication, its > certainly a big issue if there is two entities harvesting metadata > from tons of photos on every GNOME installation.
That's not a good enough reason. Sure it would be nicer if all the apps used the same technology, but it shouldn't get in the way of producing great apps with a great experience. As for the "two entities harvesting metadata", does it make sense for Tracker to index things that nothing is interested in? I'll let you discuss this amongst yourselves ;) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
