Re: [Tracker] Announce: Nemo 0.1

["Anders Rune Jensen" <anders iola dk>]

On Nov 29, 2007 11:39 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
<mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> You bet it will. The world will be 10-20% more happy once Xesam 1.0 goes
> stable and Tracker (and others! Jos, Joe, Fabrice?) implements it.
>
> Xesam 1.0 RC 2 is not very far off, and I expect that to be more extremely
> close, if not *the*, 1.0 release.

Cool!

> I assume that you use the metadata storage capabilities of Tracker too.

Yes and no. We currently do a very light indexing on our own, more or
less just scanning your homedir and inserting the files into the
database. We then store stuff like labels and if a file is starred or
not in the same database. It was for a very long time the plan that we
would just use tracker for doing all of this, but we got to a point
where we wanted to release something and we wanted it to work for
people out of the box (meaning tracker 0.6.3) that we had to roll our
own metata storage. Another reason is that we have a long time plan of
porting Nemo to other operating systems and there we can reuse the
metadata storage and just use the native desktop search engine, be it
spotlight, google desktop search or whatever. And sadly the closed
source world will probably be slower at adopting Xesam so we would
have to do something like what we have done for them anyway :-)

> This means that Xesam 1.0 will not fullfill all your needs (eg tagging), but we
> will be pusing towards the metadata management part of Xesam shortly after
> 1.0. Getting from 1.0 to the next Xesam versions should be a lot easier than
> getting to 1.0[1].

Yeah, getting the first release out is always hard, there's just so
much you want to do :-)

-- 
Anders Rune Jensen
http://people.iola.dk/anders/