Re: User's preferred search tool

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 17:27 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 12:57 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> > Stuffing more and more things into the preferred applications capplet
> > is really
> > not the way forward. I'll end up like gnome-volume-manager if we
> > continue this...
> > Really, we need a single search tool that can talk to various engines.
> 
> +1
> 
> who knows how's xesam these days? is it still written in python? do
> search engines implement the xesam query spec?
> 
> another action plan would be copying the (Gtk|Nautilus)SearchEngine code
> into libegg and then reuse it in gnome-search-tool. or directly make the
> search engine API in gtk+ semi-public (which, I guess, would make
> Nautilus maintainers quite happy :-)).
> 

xesam in in RC1
http://xesam.org/main/Xesam90

tracker will shortly be implementing support for it

I think beagle has preliminary support for it but not sure how much it
covers 

the gtk/nautilus code should be deprecated in favour of xesam in the
coming months

jamie