Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Shaun McCance wrote:

> I wonder what you consider to be important stuff.  I have a number
> of types of files on my computer that I consider important.  They
> are important to me, even other people don't think the file types
> are important.

its not so much a problem of metadata extraction or text extraction 
cause we do this out of process so plug-ins could be used here

> We can't possibly expect Tracker to handle every file format under
> the sun.  Beagle doesn't, Spotlight doesn't, and I'm sure whatever
> thing Vista is doing doesn't.  But what they provide is a way for
> external application to provide indexers for their file formats.
> And ISDs are doing this.  (Insert admonition about how we'd get
> better third-party buy-in with a cross-desktop solution.)

we wont except in-process stuff as these could crash tracker - if they 
can be done externally then no problem.

> Personally, I'm excited about having actual metadata alongside full
> text indexes.  I think you can get much richer queries, and there's
> more potential for application interaction.  But that also means we
> have to allow even more flexibility for third-party integration.
>
> I'm not saying Tracker can't do any of this.  I'm asking if it can.
> Your proposal is sort of the buzzword-compliant boss version.  I'd
> really like the hacker version.  What does Tracker actually do, and
> what can we actually do with it?

see page : http://live.gnome.org/ResearchAndDevelopment/Tracker


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