Re: [Tracker] Tracker's GUI in C

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Eyal Oren wrote:
> 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.

yeah that would rock!




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