Re: Suggestion for 2.14

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

David LeSage wrote:
> 6. A Beagle clone (non-Mono) integrated tightly into the desktop. 

Whilst a clone can easily be built in C (now that there is a C port of 
Lucene which is Beagle's indexing engine) I however dont think the 
lucene way is all that great or efficient with regard to metadata which 
is why I'm working on something that's different but more powerful than 
Beagle/Lucene.

In particular my Tracker project is more like KAT and Medusa than Beagle 
as it is designed mainly for the needs of a file manager and will do 
things like thumbnailing, full text indexing and metadata harvesting on 
the fly. Integration with Nautilus will make it easy to do things like 
virtual folders (like OS/X and Vista can do) and if we index emails and 
conversations as well then we can make them first class objects via a 
gnome-vfs driver so that they all appear as virtual files in Nautilus.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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