Re: [Tracker] Tracker's GUI in C

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2006/9/10, Jaime Frutos Morales <acidborg gmail com 
> <mailto: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).

yeah this all cool but to start with I would probably want something 
simple. The deadline for new modules for gnome 2.18 is 1st week of 
October and I would like both a gui and email indexing done by then.

So time will be the most pressing factor here.

(I will knock up a quick outline tonight and add it to cvs so you guys 
can send me patches)



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