Re: Call for a Gnome Media Center

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:08 +1300, John Stowers wrote:
> > Mandriva provide default directory layout for Music, image, etc. How do
> > Mac OS X ? I guess we should have something similar to g_get_home_dir
> > (), g_get_config_dir () for media. This should be done in XDG.
> 
> This sounds a bit like we are doing the job of the computer here. To a
> large extent I dont care where my photos are, where my music is,
> directories are soooo 1990's. I just want it to show in my media
> center.

if you don't care where stuff goes, then you're going to pay a penalty
of disk seeks, ruining performances that tracker *might* save.  also,
keeping stuff indexed all the place means that the indexer must stroll
through the disk - another performance penalty.

this is not a problem for tracker; this is a problem for
programmatically access directories - with the added twist of localising
their name without actually having to create localised directories on
disk.

oh, and please, for the love of what's holy and sacred in the universe:
stop plugging tracker for every task you can conceive.  we understand
it's good, that you've worked on it and whatever - but tracker is not
the solution to all the problems of thw world; otherwise it should have
been called "panacea".  pretty please, with sugar on top.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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