Re: [Tracker] Grilling fish (the project announcement)

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> Ok, now that I have something working (at a minimal feature scope) I 
> think I'm ready to announce the birth of project Barracuda.
>
> It is a desktop search program using Tracker as indexing back end. You 
> can see a screenshot here:
>
> http://grillbar.org/barracuda/screenshot.png

Looks promising

> What it can do:
>  - Text serarches via Tracker (on an optinal servcice that defaults to 
> Files)

Would be cool if we could break down the results display into Documents, 
Music, Images, OtherFiles etc like Spotlight and Holmes

>  - Thumbnail results (very slowly - hence a stop button)
Are you doing this async? (IE in a seperate thread like nautilus does)

>  - Open results by clicking them (with correct program for the given 
> mimetype)
>
> What it can't do (yet):
>  - Do spiffy stuff with the matadata provided by tracker

Also preview of selected file (showing the matched text)

> I've put the code in a Bazaar-NG repository on 
> http://grillbar.org/barracuda, you can check it out with
>
>     bzr get http://grillbar.org/barracuda";
>
> Just run "./test_barracuda" from the source dir. When new spiffy stuff 
> lands in the tree you can update your snapshot with:
>
>     bzr pull
>
> In Ubuntu you should install the "bzr" package to get bazaar up and 
> running. If you haven't tried bzr before I gotta warn you - it's pretty 
> addictive! No more cvs for me please :-D
>
> Interesting Parts:
> There is a baracuda.tracker submodule, that only relies on dbus and 
> gobject Python bindings. When it is more mature it might do good as a 
> separate module for easy tracker-python interaction. Perhaps even 
> bundled in the tracker source..?

sure but that means CVS :)

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