Re: Proposed module: tracker

["John Stowers" <john stowers lists gmail com>]

+1

> I have strong objections to the inclusion of tracker into GNOME 2.18.
>
> Actually, I have one strong objection, that is: what's proposed for
> inclusion and where?  If it's tracker-search-tool (the UI), I'd say that
> for what tracker *does* right now, there's no difference between tracker
> and gnome-search-tool in gnome-utils.

This is true only if you look at the two UIs. Tracker adds search by
metadata, (including user defined metadata) such as tags. Not to
mention the quality and speed of the search is a multitude better
using tracker.

If what's proposed for inclusion
> is tracker-the-indexer, then until we have a use for the indexer in more
> than one application, I'd wait for its inclusion; same goes for
> tracker-the-database.  I'd also like to see a tracker-library to access
> the data without having to implement the D-Bus calls into each and every
> application.

There is libtracker

> I'd also like for tracker to become less of a moving target: in the past
> six months tracker changed the database backend twice (at least), API,
> UI; and it still indexes just plain text files, images and audio files,
> with all the interesting stuff (emails, contacts, im conversations,
> bookmarks, etc.) marked as TODO.

Are backend changes less relevant when hidden behind a stable
libtracker api?. Personally I would be ashamed if tracker was left our
becuase of the amount of svn activity it has seen.

In the last 12 months tracker has been one of the most active projects
in GNOME, Jamie addressed a multitude of concerns by adding
considerably stronger RDF-type-semantic-web features since the last
time tracker was flamed into oblivion on ddl.

To be frank I see Tracker as the most interesting thing that has been
developed for GNOME. I am most excited to finally see tagging
available on the desktop (yes there was leaftag but that is now dead).
It is the first piece of infrastructure that smells like Topaz as well
as letting us play catchup to vista and OSX in terms of search - lets
give people something to be excited about.

John