Re: [Tracker] Announcing Daze: The Desktop Annotation Zebra

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2006/11/15, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> I just released a small note-taking/annotation tool for Gnome. It uses
> tracker to store all state, so has zero memory footprint (unlike another
> well known note application).
>
> Read more at my blog: http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=173
>

I should really create some more methods so you can do this right.

First off we cant use "VFS Files" for this when we have "Notes" as the
service. I will create a general method for creation that allows you to
specify a service name.

We should have some predefined metadata Notes.Title, Notes.Content etc

(they should be of type "indexable string" rather than just "string" so
they show up in free text searches)

Ultimately I would want tomboy notes indexed too so hopefully Daze has
enough in common

otherwise looking good!

Before we rush on regarding API changes, I have a few thoughts...

1) Files.Create could return (id,service) right now you pass it an uri, but you are not guaranteed that this uri will be the actual tracker id...

2) Likewise for Files.Exists. It could return (id,service) instead of a boolean. - And an empty list if the file doesn't exist. Also auto_create should make Files.Exists return (id,service) if the file was created no? I think it would be more useful that way.

3) Search.Metadata could take a list of metadata classes instead of single class to make it more efficient.

4) Metadata.Get could take a list of uris, or maybe a list of (uri,service) tuples. Currently it takes a single uri.

Generally, I want to make the interfaces more "compact", with the methods providing richer information, and taking batch arguments as default. The idea is to have a flexible api that minimizes the amount of dbus traffic...


Cheers,
Mikkel