Re: [Tracker] Tracker's GUI in C

["Roberto J. Dohnert" <robertdohnert mailshack com>]

BEST doesnt have the hehehe best interface.  I would try to do
somnething similar to Spotlight or Copernic Desktop Search.

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 16:41 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen 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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