Re: GtkFileChooser API work (bookmarks)

["Seth Nickell" <snickell stanfordalumni org>]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 2:46PM -0800, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Marco Pesenti Gritti">
>
> >  I've been playing with a daemon for user data idea too. Right now I
> >  think Storage approach is more appropriate though.
> >  (http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage)
>
> As interesting as Storage may be, it is fairly pie-in-the-sky when it 
> comes
> to solving user problems in a reasonable timeframe. There's no reason 
> to
> drop *serious* user issues on the floor waiting for some "perfect 
> system" to
> come along. :-)

Guess again ;-) Storage as it exists today is a very good back-bone for 
implementing Sutra, a metadata system that marco and curtis were 
planning as a next-generation medusa (and is certainely geared toward 
today's problems). There's very close correspondence between features 
sutra wants for metadata and features storage provides for all data.

We are now all working together to make sutra happen by way of storage. 
The fastest way to get sutra-like capabilities, by far, is to use 
storage at this point. Clearly this incarnation of Storage is not going 
to use a system-wide postgres server, but the same api and 95% same code 
as the full-fledged storage will be used.

-Seth