Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jamie McCracken">
>
> > As this stage I am simply proposing tracker-search-tool as a replacement
> > for the gnome-search-tool as I believe it does a better job with faster
> > instant search and search snippets.
>
> That was not entirely clear from previous emails in this thread. In that
> case, please explain *what* t-s-t is, what t-s-t *does* and *why* t-s-t is
> so important that we should replace working code with it. Those are the
> things people need to know, not that you believe it does a better, faster,
> fitter, healthier, more productive job.

If you read the first email it did state that.

t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a 
better search tool because it can show search snippets like google as 
well as providing high speed search.

> > It would be fantastic for Gnome 2.18 to have this around the time Vista
> > ships and with a common dbus interface for indexing, Beagle too can
> > benefit by effectively being in too for those that want more indexing than
> > tracker currently provides (I dont plan on indexing as much as Beagle or
> > maybe Strigi so there is bound to be room for them too).
>
> So, if Tracker doesn't do indexing as a priority, and doesn't cover similar
> ground to Beagle, why are you positioning it as a choice? Why don't we just
> use Beagle, which has already shipped with various distributions?

Indexing is part of Tracker - its just not the only *part*. Its not a 
matter of priority as such. We will be indexing all the important stuff 
(files, applications, emails and conversations)

As for Beagle, you'll have to ask the Beagle devs why beagle is not ready

I for one cant run beagle well on my 256MB machine until they sort out 
the memory issues so its kinda of a non-starter. Tracker should be able 
to run well on any machine that can run GNOME and thats why it should be 
the "default" and in the Gnome desktop.


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