Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2009/10/28 Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>:
> So, putting this conversation back on track:
>
> * What are the barriers for accepting tracker?
> * What do the tracker folks have to do to address them?
>
> I think we're all in agreement that an indexer is needed.

Just to mention, tracker is an indexer _and_ a metadata store, so the
potential here is just more than indexing and storing the indexed
data, but to have a application agnostic data store for the desktop,
that happens to have a quite powerful indexer.

> sri
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Sandy Armstrong
> <sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jamie McCracken
>> <jamie mccrack googlemail com> wrote:
>> > Whatever shell is used in Gnome 3 will at some point likely provide an
>> > out of process applet system (especially if enough people scream!)
>>
>> This is simply not consistent with what the gnome-shell developers
>> have been saying all along (in-process javascript-based extensibility
>> like firefox extensions).
>>
>> However, that's getting off-topic, and realistically search-type
>> actions will probably make the most sense in the overlay's search box,
>> so my guess is that tracker developers would be encouraged to
>> integrate there instead of adding arbitrary search UI in the shell.
>>
>> Sandy
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz