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
