Re: [Tracker] Tracker's GUI in C

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

2006/9/10, Jaime Frutos Morales <acidborg gmail com>:

I'm interested in writting the Tracker's GUI in C.

Is there anyone already working on it?

What are the expected features of the GUI? I have had a look at
http://beagle-project.org/Best_Screenshots and it seems a good start.
Any ideas?

I really don't think Best is a "good start". The Best UI also relies on some gecko rendering that cannot be done with a gtk.TreeView or gtk.IconView (without some *serious* hacking[1]).

AlsoTracker has so many more features than Beagle (and especially more than Beagle in the Best days), a UI that fits Beagle is not necessarily right for Tracker.  A cool up-to-date search UI for Tracker could contain things like:

 * Integrated tagging
 * Saved searches
 * Result clustering
 * Associative browsing
 * Direct metadata editing?
 

What dependencies are going to be introduced? I mean GTK 2.8 vs GTK
2.10, any gnome-especific lib, etc.

If Tracker is aiming to be included into Gnome 2.18 there's no point in not depending on gtk 2.10. Gnome does anyways. Or?
 

Cheers,
Mikkel

[1]: I have actually investigated a bit into this. To do a gui like that would require what I have dubbed a "CompositeCellRenderer"  (not related to the composite extension of xorg). A composite cell renderer allows other cellrenderers to be packed into a single cellrenderer. It is not rocket science but it is tricky to all the details right (focus issues fx). I have a Python prototype almost functional, and I have planned to implement the renderer in C when I grok the details (and get 30 hours in the day :-D).