Re: [Tracker] A suggestion...

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade nokia com>]

Hi Michael,

El jue, 16-04-2009 a las 06:32 +0200, ext Michael Lissner escribiÃ:
> Hi!

> Something I haven't heard though, and that seems conspicuously missing, 
> is discussion of the GUI. At present, it seems like it supports about 
> 10% of the functionality that the indexer creates. This seems like a 
> tragic situation, since almost all of the interaction with Tracker is 
> done through the GUI. So long as this is the case, all the back end work 
> doesn't really translate into much to the user (as far as I can tell).

We have been focused on the daemon. Once the daemon is in a usable
shape, and we are happy with the API, then we can start to ping
applications developers: "hey, look what do you have here to play".

I think this could be a great opportunity for new contributors: Writing a new UI 
for the search or even porting some projects (e.g. Nemo) to use tracker 
as backend. uhmm are you a programmer? :)

In the last GUADEC, Federico Mena (GNOME hacker) talk about a "timeline" view of 
your activity on the Desktop. It should be doable with the information available in tracker.

> So, what I'm wondering is if there are any plans to bring it up to 
> speed? I'd bet it would really impress (and surprise) people to see what 
> Tracker can actually do!

If everything goes fine, we will present tracker on the DesktopSummit,
and maybe we can attract the interest of some hackers.

Regards

Ivan