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[gnomeweb-wml/tracker-site-update] Tracker: Updated based on feedback from initial review

commit ae6c42611aeb4e9ee1637cb32c67913503267ce1
Author: Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>
Date:   Thu Nov 26 18:02:56 2009 +0000

    Tracker: Updated based on feedback from initial review

 projects.gnome.org/tracker/documentation.html      |   54 ++++++++++++++++----
 projects.gnome.org/tracker/features.html           |    6 +-
 .../tracker/images/screenshots/Makefile.am         |    5 ++-
 .../screenshots/screenshot-tracker-preferences.png |  Bin 0 -> 35654 bytes
 .../screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-bar.png  |  Bin 0 -> 325611 bytes
 .../screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-tool.png |  Bin 0 -> 64100 bytes
 projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html              |   32 ++++++++++--
 projects.gnome.org/tracker/style/tracker.css       |    2 +-
 8 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/documentation.html b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/documentation.html
index 51be4c0..0bb7bb4 100644
--- a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/documentation.html
+++ b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/documentation.html
@@ -41,6 +41,49 @@
       </div>
       
       <div id="content">
+	<h2>How Can I Use It?</h2>
+	<p>There are two very distinct ways to use Tracker. One is by
+	the command line (which is more for developer's and people
+	experimenting with the client side querying) and the user
+	interfaces. The command line tools are covered further down.</p>
+
+	<h3>User Interfaces</h3>
+	<h4>Preferences</h4>
+	<p>Using the Tracker Preferences application, you can
+	configure what you want to index and what you want to
+	ignore:</p>
+	<p><a href="images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-preferences.png"><img src="images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-preferences.png" width="50%"/></a></p>
+
+	<h4>Search Bar</h4>
+	<p>The search bar is an applet for GNOME which allows quick
+	access to your data by entering a few search terms. This is
+	the easiest way to find your data:</p>
+	<p><a href="images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-bar.png"><img src="images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-bar.png" width="50%"/></a></p>
+
+	<h4>Search Tool</h4>
+	<p>The main application for searching for content is called
+	tracker-search-tool. With this tool you can browse your data
+	by category. Each time a file is selected the details about
+	that file are described in a bottom pane of the window:</p>
+	<p><a href="images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-tool.png"><img src="images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-tool.png" width="50%"/></a></p>
+
+	<h4>Desktop Integration</h4>
+	<p>There are Tracker plugins
+	for <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/totem/";>Totem</a>, <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/nautilus/";>Nautilus</a>
+	and the GTK+ File Chooser.
+
+	<h3>Command Line Tools</h3>
+	<p>There are also a range of command line utilities to use with Tracker:</p>
+	<ul>
+	  <li><strong>tracker-control</strong><br/>Manage Tracker processes and data</li>
+	  <li><strong>tracker-info</strong><br/>Get all information about one or more files</li>
+	  <li><strong>tracker-search</strong><br/>Search for terms in all data</li>
+	  <li><strong>tracker-stats</strong><br/>Show statistics for all Nepomuk defined ontology classes</li>
+	  <li><strong>tracker-status</strong><br/>Monitor and control status</li>
+	  <li><strong>tracker-sparql</strong><br/>Query or update using SPARQL</li>
+	  <li><strong>tracker-tag</strong><br/>Add, remove or list tags</li>
+	</ul>
+
 	<h2>API</h2>
 	<p>There are two approaches to the API for Tracker. There is
 	an API for applications to build their own data miners and by
@@ -79,17 +122,6 @@
 
 	<p>To illustrate the relationships between libraries in the tracker stack, see how <a href="images/tracker-store.png">tracker-store</a> and <a href="images/tracker-miner-fs.png">tracker-miner-fs</a> are designed architecturally.</p>
 
-	<p>There are also a range of command line utilities to use with Tracker:</p>
-	<ul>
-	  <li><strong>tracker-control</strong><br/>Manage Tracker processes and data</li>
-	  <li><strong>tracker-info</strong><br/>Get all information about one or more files</li>
-	  <li><strong>tracker-search</strong><br/>Search for terms in all data</li>
-	  <li><strong>tracker-stats</strong><br/>Show statistics for all Nepomuk defined ontology classes</li>
-	  <li><strong>tracker-status</strong><br/>Monitor and control status</li>
-	  <li><strong>tracker-sparql</strong><br/>Query or update using SPARQL</li>
-	  <li><strong>tracker-tag</strong><br/>Add, remove or list tags</li>
-	</ul>
-
 	<h2>Configuration</h2>
 	<p>All of Tracker's configuration is kept in <tt>$HOME/.config/tracker</tt>. There are manual pages for each of the configurations should you want more information about them. For example, you can use:</p>
 	<pre>$ man tracker-miner-fs.cfg</pre>
diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/features.html b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/features.html
index f92dd9e..6f499cd 100644
--- a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/features.html
+++ b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/features.html
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@
 	  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/"; alt="">SPARQL</a> is used for <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/"; alt="">RDF</a> style querying.</li>
 	  <li>The <a href="http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/"; alt="">Nepomuk</a> ontologies are followed as closely as possible.</li>
 	  <li>The <a href="http://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec"; alt="">thumbnailer</a> specification we started is used for creating and managing thumbnails for images and album art.</li>
-	  <li>The <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec"; alt="">base directory</a> specification details how desktops should locate files at runtime.</li>
+	  <li>The <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec"; alt="">base directory</a> specification details how desktops should locate files at run-time.</li>
 	  <li>The <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/config-spec"; alt="">shared configuration</a> specification outlines where configurations for applications should be kept (desktop-neutral). </li>
-	  <li>The <a href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec"; alt="">shared file metadata</a> specification outlines a common metadata naming scheme that should be used by all technologies similar to Tracker. We try to follow this as closely as possible.</p>
+	  <li>The <a href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec"; alt="">shared file meta-data</a> specification outlines a common meta-data naming scheme that should be used by all technologies similar to Tracker. We try to follow this as closely as possible.</p>
 	  <li>The <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html"; alt="">auto-start</a> specification describes how Tracker's processes should be initiated on the desktop's start up.</p>
 	</ul>
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 	  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; alt="">XML Schema Document</a> (xsd)</li>
 	  <li>Resource Description Framework (rdf)</li>
 	  <li><a href="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/nrl/"; alt="">Nepomuk Representational Language</a> (nrl)</li>
-	  <li>Dublin Core metadata (dc)</li>
+	  <li>Dublin Core meta-data (dc)</li>
 	  <li><a href="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/nie/"; alt="">Nepomuk Information Element</a> (nie)</li>
 	  <li><a href="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/nao/"; alt="">Nepomuk Annotation Ontology</a> (nao)</li>
 	  <li><a href="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/nco/"; alt="">Nepomuk Contact Ontology</a> (nco)</li>
diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/Makefile.am b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/Makefile.am
index 5cea91f..9c3bb6d 100644
--- a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/Makefile.am
+++ b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/Makefile.am
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ page_SCRIPTS =
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common
 
-misc_images =
+misc_images = 					\
+	screenshot-tracker-preferences.png	\
+	screenshot-tracker-search-bar.png	\
+	screenshot-tracker-search-tool.png
 
 page_DATA = $(misc_images)
 
diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-preferences.png b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-preferences.png
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diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-bar.png b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-bar.png
new file mode 100644
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diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-tool.png b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/images/screenshots/screenshot-tracker-search-tool.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9802c05
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diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html
index 10a270c..a0272d2 100644
--- a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html
+++ b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 	<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search";
 	alt="">semantic data storage</a> for the desktop and mobile
 	devices. It allows the user to keep track of the data stored
-	on their devices and online sources and extract
+	on their devices and on-line sources and extract
 	relationships in an automated fashion. Tracker 
 	uses <a href="http://www.w3.org/"; alt="">W3C</a>
 	standards for <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/";
@@ -58,16 +58,40 @@
 	and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/";
 	alt="">SPARQL</a> to query and update the data.</p> 
 
+	<h2>What does that mean?</h2>
 	<p>Tracker is an all-in-one indexer, search tool and
 	<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata";
-	alt="">metadata</a> database. It is designed to extract
-	information and metadata about your personal data so that it
+	alt="">meta-data</a> database. It is designed to extract
+	information and meta-data about your personal data so that it
 	can be searched easily and quickly. Part of this extraction
 	includes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_text_search";
 	alt="">full text searching</a> (FTS) which allows indexing of
 	the content in documents and other files so you can find the
 	file you are interested in if it contains the
-	word <q>managemement</q> in it (for example).</p>
+	word <q>management</q> in it (for example).</p>
+
+	<p>Tracker is a central repository of <strong>user</strong>
+	information, that provides two big benefits for the desktop;
+	shared data between applications (it doesn't matter what the
+	source is once it's stored in the repository) and linked
+	information from different sources (mixing contacts with
+	files, location, activities and etc.).</p>
+       
+	<p>This central repository can work only with a very well
+	defined data model, that applications can rely on to store and
+	recover their information. That data model is defined using a
+	semantic web artifact called ontology. An ontology defines the
+	concepts (classes) and properties (attributes) that the items
+	in the repository can be or have.</p>
+
+	<p>There is an EU-funded project called Nepomuk, where a core
+	of ontologies to model the Desktop were defined. This set was a
+	very good starting point for Tracker but new requirements and heavy
+	development in collaboration with applications provided a very
+	valuable feedback, in form of fixes and extensions. Some of this
+	work is already submitted for approval in the upstream version, but
+	the process is long and hard, so the Tracker ontologies are
+	diverging slowly.</p> 
       </div> <!-- content -->
       
     </div> <!-- container -->
diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/style/tracker.css b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/style/tracker.css
index 55ef971..3c16741 100644
--- a/projects.gnome.org/tracker/style/tracker.css
+++ b/projects.gnome.org/tracker/style/tracker.css
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* Green = #3ee63c, Red = #f6524d, Blue = #3e76e4, Dark Blue = #000080, Orange = #f60, Dark Grey = #2e3436;
  */
 body {
-    background : black;
+    background : #222222;
     color : #2e3436;
     width : 45em;
     margin : 0 auto;
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