Re: [Tracker] Tracker's GUI in C

[Eyal Oren <eyal oren deri org>]

On 09/10/06/09/06 16:41 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 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?
Hi, 

bumping in here, I'd be interesting to help develop an "associative 
browsing" interface for tracker, because I think it is a great way to show 
and navigate your personal data: search is often not enough, since you 
don't know exactly what to search for...even on the personal desktop you 
often forget the data that you have stored earlier.

As a researcher I'm working on associative navigation interfaces for RDF 
data (which is very close to tracker's data structure), see for example 
[1], and I would be very interested to try out these ideas in tracker. The 
major challenge is to keep it simple and gnome-like.

-eyal

[1] http://www.eyaloren.org/pubs/iswc2006-facets.pdf