2006/10/24, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
(okay here goes - now that I have looked up what an elevator pitch
is! I will try to be brief...)
What is it?
Tracker is a personal search tool and storage system that allows you to
search and enhance your personal data with the minimum of
2006/10/23, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Jos van den Oever wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Jos, great to have you in on this discussion.
Thanks Jamie, glad to join in.
First to clarify, tracker is not a dedicated indexer (like Beagle and
Strigi) but is first and foremost a database which has
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 14:13 -0500, Travis Watkins wrote:
On 10/22/06, Luca Ferretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xgd-utils is a set of command line tools: the recent 1.0 release
includes:
[snip]
Don't these tools just call things already in GNOME to do their work?
Yes they do. Using it would
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 19:47 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
Be very careful with trying to put disparate kinds of data under the
same storage.
Read these articles:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog18.html
http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html
And then consider
Alexander Larsson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 19:47 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
Be very careful with trying to put disparate kinds of data under the
same storage.
Read these articles:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog18.html
http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html
Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html
I know that Thunderbird and firefox are moving to sqlite for storage but
Im not sure in thunderbird's case whether emails will be stored in
sqlite or just the config/mork stuff.
In another instance, BeOs tracker stored emails
Hi all,
Where can i change the Actions Icons(logout, lock screen) ? I can't find
the Path ?!
Need Help.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Paulo César Silva
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On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 13:48 -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
I'm in total agreement here. I've used the slab menu which is included
in Ubuntu. For those who want to make useful comments about slab as it
compares with the other menu setups can apt-get install
gnome-main-menu on Edgy.
My
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 13:09 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 13:48 -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
I'm in total agreement here. I've used the slab menu which is included
in Ubuntu. For those who want to make useful comments about slab as it
compares with the other menu
[3] If there is another way, I couldn't find it
You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added.
iain
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Hi,
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:07 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jamie McCracken
t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a
better search tool because it can show search snippets like google as well
as providing high speed search.
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:11 +0100, Iain * wrote:
[3] If there is another way, I couldn't find it
You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added.
Thanks. Unfortunately, this still seems pretty weird to me. The
Computer menu closes as soon as I click somewhere
Don Scorgie wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:07 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jamie McCracken
t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a
better search tool because it can show search snippets like google as well
as providing
On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:07 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jamie McCracken
t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a
better search tool because it can show search
Sanford Armstrong wrote:
On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:07 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jamie McCracken
t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a
better search tool because it can
Hi,
Jamie McCracken wrote:
I know that Thunderbird and firefox are moving to sqlite for storage but
Im not sure in thunderbird's case whether emails will be stored in
sqlite or just the config/mork stuff.
Emails themselves are stored in mbox format. The summary format is Mork
(and sqlite
Hi,
Jeff Waugh wrote:
We have a pretty clear email from Joe about that, and what he needs to do to
rectify the situation.
Good news on this front: with the help of some Mono developers here at
the Mono Summit, we've been able to reduce Beagle startup memory usage
by a third, we've
Il giorno mar, 24/10/2006 alle 12.05 +0100, Paulo César Silva ha
scritto:
Hi all,
Where can i change the Actions Icons(logout, lock screen) ? I can't find
the Path ?!
What do mean?
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On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:11 +0100, Iain * wrote:
[3] If there is another way, I couldn't find it
You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added.
Thanks. Unfortunately, this still seems pretty weird to me.
On 19/10/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ross Burton wrote:
Also, if I search for created by ross how does the system need to know
that it should search File.Publisher, Audio.Artist, Audio.Performer,
Doc.Author and Image.Creator? The naming scheme here is inconsistant
and
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 21:26 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
First to clarify, tracker is not a dedicated indexer (like Beagle and
Strigi) but is first and foremost a database which has indexing as a
side feature.
Are there any *currently existing* GNOME applications that make use of
tracker's
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:26 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
I think that the idea Ross is trying to get across here is that rather
than having a flat namespace of metadata types, you want to have
relationships between the metadata types (metadata about metadata).
[snip]
Yes, thanks James for
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:26 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
...
I think that the idea Ross is trying to get across here is that rather
than having a flat namespace of metadata types, you want to have
relationships between the metadata types (metadata about metadata).
For example, we might
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:52 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
I have been thinking of allowimg all metadata to be registered with an
optional hardcoded dublin core type(1) so we could use maybe
dc.creator that would search all metadata registered against that type.
You would not be able to
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:01 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
Would that satisfy you Ross?
Why not allow all metadata types to specify that they specialise an
existing metadata type, which obviously will bubble up to File.Creator
being a specialisation of dc.Title?
Dublin Core is a very useful
Dan Winship wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 21:26 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
First to clarify, tracker is not a dedicated indexer (like Beagle and
Strigi) but is first and foremost a database which has indexing as a
side feature.
Are there any *currently existing* GNOME applications that
Il giorno gio, 19/10/2006 alle 03.10 +0100, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
Hi,
We have just released a new stable version of tracker (0.5.0) which can
be found here:
http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.0.tar.bz2
I would like to propose this for inclusion into Gnome 2.18 as
Ross Burton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:01 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
Would that satisfy you Ross?
Why not allow all metadata types to specify that they specialise an
existing metadata type, which obviously will bubble up to File.Creator
being a specialisation of dc.Title?
Dublin Core is
Luca Ferretti wrote:
Il giorno gio, 19/10/2006 alle 03.10 +0100, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
Hi,
We have just released a new stable version of tracker (0.5.0) which can
be found here:
http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.0.tar.bz2
I would like to propose this for inclusion
On 24/10/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ross Burton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:26 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
I think that the idea Ross is trying to get across here is that rather
than having a flat namespace of metadata types, you want to have
relationships between
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:09 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Dan Winship wrote:
You talked about porting epiphany to store its bookmarks in
tracker, but I can't find anything evidence either that (a) you've
actually tried this yet and verified that it works well,
the spec for that is
Il giorno mar, 24/10/2006 alle 17.24 +0100, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
Luca Ferretti wrote:
Il giorno gio, 19/10/2006 alle 03.10 +0100, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
Hi,
snap
* of course the patch don't include po/LINGUAS and po/ChangeLog
files
I forgot po/POTFILES.in
Em Ter, 2006-10-24 às 17:09 +0100, Jamie McCracken escreveu:
The only thing slowing down further integration is getting into gnome or
being an accepeted dependency - hopefully a chicken and egg situation
can be avoided here
Why don't you create a branch to work on Epiphany?
Cheers,
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 13:43 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote:
One of the cool features of the deskbar applet is showing options as you
type. With the main menu, using search will open beagle with you're
search terms.
Not for me it won't-- I don't have beagle installed :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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James Henstridge wrote:
On 24/10/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ross Burton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:26 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
I think that the idea Ross is trying to get across here is that rather
than having a flat namespace of metadata types, you want to
Luca Ferretti wrote:
PPS what about a bugzilla entry?
I asked for one about 6 months ago (I emailed the bugzilla team but got
no reply)
If anyone could help set up a bugzilla entry that would be great (or
point me to the appropriate procedure)
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Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
Em Ter, 2006-10-24 às 17:09 +0100, Jamie McCracken escreveu:
The only thing slowing down further integration is getting into gnome or
being an accepeted dependency - hopefully a chicken and egg situation
can be avoided here
Why don't you create a
Il giorno mar, 24/10/2006 alle 18.51 +0100, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
Luca Ferretti wrote:
PPS what about a bugzilla entry?
I asked for one about 6 months ago (I emailed the bugzilla team but got
no reply)
If anyone could help set up a bugzilla entry that would be great (or
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 23:21 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
The main reason was I didn't like the way GNOME uses loads of different,
inefficient and incompatible means of storing information (think
Berkeley DB for EDS, MBox for emails, the zillions of small performance
draining XML files used
Ross Burton wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 23:21 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
The main reason was I didn't like the way GNOME uses loads of different,
inefficient and incompatible means of storing information (think
Berkeley DB for EDS, MBox for emails, the zillions of small performance
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 20:04 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Only Files at the moment. We have preliminary Email support but its not
complete yet. The Api would be specific to each object and would be
analogous to the methods on a class.
Can you point to the API in the source?
I'm curious as
Ross Burton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 20:04 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Only Files at the moment. We have preliminary Email support but its not
complete yet. The Api would be specific to each object and would be
analogous to the methods on a class.
Can you point to the API in the
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:33 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Next up we would define the basic metadata or properties of the object
(EG Contact.FirstName, Contact.Surname, Contact.EmailAddress etc along
with their types) and add these to the metadata types table
$ grep EVC_ e-vcard.h| wc
Ross Burton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:33 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Next up we would define the basic metadata or properties of the object
(EG Contact.FirstName, Contact.Surname, Contact.EmailAddress etc along
with their types) and add these to the metadata types table
$ grep EVC_
As per the comment on bug 343896 I am forwarding this to this list for
discussion. To summarize the bug, libgnome's gnome-open will open
a .desktop file with a text editor, causing several applications (such
as deskbar-applet) to open .desktop files, when it is more likely that
the user was
Kevin == Kevin Kubasik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kevin Personally, I think that we should offer an API to execute .desktop file
Kevin commands somewhere in the libgnome api, but maybe gnome-open isn't the
Kevin place to do it? Please, all thoughts and commends welcome.
There is an API for this
On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been thinking of allowimg all metadata to be registered with an
optional hardcoded dublin core type(1) so we could use maybe
dc.creator that would search all metadata registered against that type.
You would not be able to
Summary files that provide offsets into an mbox or individual references
to maildir files seem like the sanest way to go to me. (And this is
what both Evolution and Thunderbird do.) The real downside is that
those summary files are considered private, and aren't designed with
On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:11 +0100, Iain * wrote:
You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added.
Thanks. Unfortunately, this still seems pretty weird to me. The
Computer menu closes as soon as I click somewhere
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 19:42 +0100, Iain * wrote:
I like the use of colour to differentiate areas, I think we should do
more of this in GNOME.
Yes, same here. Colour seems to help highlight. I didn't find it as
effective in the applications browser. While it was good using it to
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