Re: [Tracker] [Announce] Tracker 0.6.0 - better late than never!

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2007/7/24, jerry tan <Jerry Tan sun com>:

cong!

BTW: Is there any plan  for next version, may 0.70 or 0.6.1?
           Here is the feature I  wish to have in next version
                   Indexing Thunderbird Mail
                   Indexing  Firefox bookmark and history
                   start/stop trackerd from  preferencens
                   search history in TST
                   ....



> Im pleased to announce a new version of tracker with tons of exciting
> new features
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.6.0.tar.gz
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.6.0.tar.bz2
>
> screenshots can be found here:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-search-tool.png
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-prefs.png
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-prefs2.png
>
>
> Tracker is a combination desktop search and metadata database providing
> the ability to tag all your files and emails as well as searching for
> them.
>
>
> New features:
>
> *  Evolution Emails (mbox/pop/imap) now indexed
> *  Gaim/Pidgin chat logs now indexed
> *  Applications now indexed
> *  New files indexed - all spreadsheets, csv (these require gnumeric to
> be installed) and oo draw
> *  Vastly improved and new search UI using a sidebar for categories and
> a new metadata tile
> *  Tagging support in the UI
> *  New tracker-preferences UI for easy setting of prefs
> *  Tons of bug fixes - all major bugs squished!
> *  libtracker-gtk widget toolkit
> *  Now uses XDG directories
> *  Optimised triple store
> *  Handles multiple triple stores (files, emails and user data are all
> separate dbs)
> *  New IDF based ranking algorithm
> *  XMP metadata support added
> *  Made use of async calls in UI to prevent UI freezing
> *  Added 60 second delay before indexing
> *  Added support for crawling directories without watching overhead
> (useful for indexing source code without causing slowdowns when
> compiling)
>

Gongrats on the release! Compiling as I write this.

JAMIE: Did you tag the release so we can backport patches easier?

Cheers,
Mikkel