Re: Future of GNOME: Semantics

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:21 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote:
> Another example would be desktop-wide searching. A front-end search tool
> would be able to scan the session bus for objects supporting this
> interface and query each in turn for applicable results, presenting them
> as such - "10 matching emails in Evolution, 20 matching notes in Tomboy"
> etc. This would mean that the existing engines (Tracker, Beagle)
> wouldn't need to write duplicate indexers for every application like
> Evolution, they can concentrate on the file system and full-text
> indexing. It also cuts down on data duplication - there isn't a copy of
> my email metadata in both Evo and Tracker and so it never needs to get
> crawled and cannot get out of sync.
> 
this sounds quite good to deal with the 'too much disk space taken by
search engines', which indeed is too much (over 3GB here) if your home
is big
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>