Re: [Tracker] Feedback for 0.5.0

[Erlend Davidson <E R M Davidson sms ed ac uk>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Erlend Davidson wrote:
>   
> > Christoffer Sørensen wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I saw that 0.5.0 was released and gave it a go on my laptop (T23).
> > >
> > > Tracker-search-tool:
> > >
> > > + looks clean and simple
> > >
> > > The window needs to be a bit wider because the search field is too narrow.
> > >
> > > I gave it a test run by searching for "Files".
> > >
> > > It returned three results. The next button should have been grayed out
> > > because there were no more results for that query.
> > >
> > > The search returned a pdf document but I think I saw that pdf was not
> > > supported when I ran configure?
> > >
> > > The "Files" category is not easily understandable by a new user. What
> > > is the difference between "Files" and the other categories?
> > >
> > > The search tool also need some kind of status of the tracker daemon.
> > > Like "how many of my files am I able to search now?"
> > >
> > > The indexing of my files used a lot of CPU but I don't know if it is a problem.
> > >
> > > Anyway, keep up the good work and good luck on getting it into gnome.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >   
> > >       
> > What does tracker-search-tool actually require in terms of
> > dependencies?  Would gnome-desktop do?
> >     
>
> gnome-desktop gnome-vfs and gconf including dev packages
>   
Is it possible to make any of the gnome-stuff optional, or is it better
that other desktop-environments just write their own GUI's that use
tracker's API (or command-line interface)?