[Deskbar] Re: Gnome 2.14 Module Proposal: Deskbar Applet

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Raphael Slinckx wrote:

> What are our other options ? Using a lucene-like full text engine ?
> unfortunately no python version exist for it, and is it worth the
> overhead ? Using any custom full text engine written in python, i've
> looked at pyndex, but it seems not very operational. Another option
> would be to make a gnome-data-server, that maintains what we want,
> like .desktop indexes, and epiphany bookmarks. Suggestions ?
>
> Raf

My tracker project (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fTracker) 
should be able to handle that. Tracker is a medusa replacement for 
Nautilus/Gnome-VFS and also a general purpose metadata server and 
indexing framework. It indexes, extracts metadata and generates 
thumbnails on the fly in response to file change notifications from 
iNotify/FAM.

Tracker is still under developement and for 2.14 I am hoping to 
optionally integrate Tracker into Nautilus (for metadata and search) and 
possibly Gnome-VFS to get Vfolders style functionality.

So as my work is cut out for me, I probably wont be able to provide what 
you want in the 2.14 timeframe but for 2.16 it should be realistic.


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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