Re: Proposed module: tracker

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2007/1/11, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 23:39 +1300, John Stowers wrote:
> > >
> > > People got excited by Bonobo 6 years ago, I know I did. We looked for
> > > all sorts of places Bonobo could be used and we made them use Bonobo
> > > even when Bonobo wasn't in any way the best solution. We are now
> > > suffering for that excitement.
> >
> > This is the second time the bonobo comparison has been made.
> >
> > Developers got excited about bonobo - users thought they were monkeys.
> > What we have here is a HEAP of excited users screaming for desktop
> > search. I dont think the two situations can be compared at all.
>
> bonobo was created because "heaps of excited users" were screaming for
> embedding controls between applications.  so the comparison perfectly
> fits.

Desktop search and unified metadata storage and access is not Bonobo.
I dare you say that to Steve J. and the his Spotlight developers (and
to the masses of drooling OSX users).

Cheerrs,
Mikkel