Re: Introducing Photos

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 05/10/2012 06:32 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 20:14 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Alberto Ruiz<aruiz gnome org>  wrote:
> > > Shotwell is widely deployed and used, it has a team of people working on it,
> > > and a commercial backer. These are VERY important things, prolly the most
> > > important things to take into account, you worry too much about the data
> > > store technologies, Tracker is great, but it is by no means the only
> > > accepted data store in the desktop.
> >
> > The point is that we already use Tracker in GNOME (Documents and Boxes
> > depend on it) and I don't see any reason for existing apps to stop
> > using it and while we could compromise on some code-duplication, its
> > certainly a big issue if there is two entities harvesting metadata
> > from tons of photos on every GNOME installation.
>
> That's not a good enough reason. Sure it would be nicer if all the apps
> used the same technology, but it shouldn't get in the way of producing
> great apps with a great experience.
>
> As for the "two entities harvesting metadata", does it make sense for
> Tracker to index things that nothing is interested in? I'll let you
> discuss this amongst yourselves ;)

We would gladly ONLY index data that's of interest to the user/desktop 
applications if you could come up with heuristics for that. I touched on 
that somewhat in my response earlier. Also, having superfluous coverage 
is better than wondering why a file is not indexed; we get more reports 
of the former generally.

Perhaps we do approach this the wrong way (detecting files 
created/updated instead of asking apps to report files they're 
interested in), but one had to come before the other and you don't get 
community support/adoption without a working solution first.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.