Hi, On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:35 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > ** What we need: > > Fields) Metadata field names and descriptions for *desktop* > objects > > Types) A type grouping of metadata fields to be used in user search > language. Example types could be "Email", "Image", "Audio", etc. > > API) A dbus api to get/set metadata > > ?Tag/Emblem) Tagging/Keywords/Emblems
Taking a step back here. What exactly are we looking to define? Just a set of fields and types that end users can use to narrow down search? "Metadata" is such a huge space here that I think we need to know what we're supposed to be covering here. If we go down the "search-only" path, I don't think we should be defining APIs for getting and setting metadata. While metadata and desktop search are related and complimentary, they're not the same thing and I don't think that a desktop search system necessarily should also be a metadata store. As for tags, I agree, there's nothing special about them. They should just be a string array. Joe _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
