Re: D-Bus

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

Max Wiehle wrote:
> So. I feel there would be quite some need for a standart interface to
> search and metadata engines (be they beagle or tracker or whatever) so
> there would not be a need to reproduce all the nice integration stuff. 
> I think dbus would fit quite well in there because afaik it's now quite
> stable and independent of programming languages etc.

This is basically the idea behind Wasabi:

http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/WasabiAbout

> Are there any plans for that? I'd really love to see more stuff like the
> example above with beagle or for that matter beagle integration used for
> tracker. I think both engines have their strength and weaknesses and
> interesting different approaches. So from a users point of view i'd like
> to be able to choose my search backend without worrying about desktop
> integration. 
>
> Maybe that could be something for SoC as well...

Yeah, I would love to see this implemented initially as an external 
adapter which basically translated Wasabi stuff into Beagle calls and 
vice versa (in C#).  That way we can see how suitable the spec is in 
terms of user experience, and it'll give us an idea if D-Bus is suitable 
for this type of use.  (Two years ago when we were last using D-Bus, it 
wasn't.)

Joe