Re: [Tracker] Tracker's GUI in C

[Mike Dobbs <sales mdobbs com>]

Note sure what parts of spotlight and copernic you are speaking of, but
I'd like to see a simple (in the spirit of gnome) searcher.  Something
with pretty much a sortable treeview list.  Maybe have the option to
show the results as a categorized tree.  Something were you can simply
type in boolean searches, searches for only certain file types, etc..  I
don't think a gecko rendering engine is necessary.  Treeview can already
support thumbnails.

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 13:59 -0400, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
> 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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