On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:48 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > I think this recent discussion about tracker as a gnome module is > somewhat backwards. I don't think it is leading us anywhere to talk > about ontologies and rdf and events and timelines and metadata stores > and kernel apis before we answer the first question: > > What is the user problem that we are solving here ? > Can that be described in a paragraph ? > And if it can, is it something that a 'regular' user would recognize > as a problem he has on his computer ? > > Once we have the problem scoped out, we need to look at the user > experience we want to aim for in solving it. Will it be a single > search-for-everything dialog ? A query language ? Tagging everywhere ? > > After that, it might be possible to evaluate whether tracker, > zeitgeist, couchdb or something else can be part of the > implementation... > > > Matthias Well, Tracker: Something which sounds cool. It for sure will help managed data for middle-organized users and for sure will make a great videos (to be honest - spinning cube had done much more PR then carefully designed UI). I'd rather use it when (if?) it will be ready. My only concern is a concept of centralized database which may get corrupted (with ALL of metadata) [besides that it is not done yet]. I'd much more'd like to see for example DBus API (or other) to support notify signals about data etc. with tracker only caching the data to query (so any time I can simply remove .tracker to rebuild the cache). Of course - if tracker will provide library to support .config/epiphany/bookmarks.trackerdb and integrate it with the main cache - I'm fine (as long as I can remove one database lefting others intact). On the other hand it will not help probably most of the users which have save-all-on-desktop mentality. If there will be (Linux-specific) inotify extention to NFS - great. CouchDB: I don't really think it is needed. I'm not convinced - how many times do I need to change email client. Without proper definition of storage (such as FirstName vs. firstName vs ...) it won't help and the proper definition can be made w/out introducing networking (TCP/IP as IPC is not nice hack IMHO unless you want RPC). Regards
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