Re: Introducing Photos

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 19:10 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
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> 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.

We're going off on a tangent, and I'm not sure I have a good answer for
this. Applications telling you which types of file they want to have the
metadata indexed for might be one way.