Re: Proposed module: tracker

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On 1/11/07, John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:

> This is the second time the bonobo comparison has been made.
>
> Developers got excited about bonobo - users thought they were monkeys.
> What we have here is a HEAP of excited users screaming for desktop
> search. I dont think the two situations can be compared at all.

The comparison is valid because we're doing the same with tracker as
we did with bonobo: Searching for places we can put Tracker before we
know what we want or need: "We want desktop search" is a rather
general statement that says nothing about requirements.

I'm not saying that desktop search is a bad thing and that no-one
wants it. I'm just saying "How do we know Tracker is the correct
solution?"

I think I'm going round in circles here, so I'll stop.

On another point entirely, why was tracker support not added to
gnome-search-tool? Why was there a need for it to be forked into
tracker-search-tool? With a patch to g-s-t you wouldnt need to be in a
place where this unknown program was replacing a well used, and
well-tested one.

iain