Re: [Tracker] Tracker's GUI in C

["Samuel Cormier-Iijima" <sciyoshi gmail com>]

I would also be interested in helping out, by the way... :-)
Samuel

On 9/10/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> 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).
>
>
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