Re: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 09:36 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On 12/11/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > > IMHO the really hard part is (1). If there's really the will to do it
> > > I think we should take it into consideration together with the plan to
> > > move towards a sqlite/ephy-data-server model and try to get everything
> > > together for 2.20. I mean, if we are going to do crack, let's do it
> > > properly :)
> > >
> >
> > (1) is easy enough to do with Tracker (which is already similiar to EDS
> > and is an sqlite/Dbus daemon) but it requires tracker to get into Gnome
> > 2.18 either as a package or as a dependency before we can use it in
> > epiphany. We wont know the outcome of that until end of January so yeah
> > 2.20 would be the earliest. (Tracker can be used a stand alone metadata
> > server without any indexing so it wont conflict with those that dont
> > want an indexer or those that prefer to use Beagle for indexing)
> 
> The last point is really interesting (hey, it only took me a couple of
> months to notice!). If we can use Tracker as a standalone metadata
> store without forcing everyone to use it as an indexer then I think it
> might be worth trying an experimental branch of ephy porting the
> bookmarks/history storage from EphyNode to Tracker. Would you be
> interested in helping with this? :)

yes but only at the backend initially. 

I would like to do the front end too (IE the UI stuff like a time slider
widget) but it would be too big a change to maintain in the long run if
epiphany cannot depend on tracker.

jamie.