Re: [Tracker] Roadmap to 0.7

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 14:09 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 10/07/09 13:18, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 12:54 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > well the new language would be for new features as well as replacing old
> > ones. Like you said we want more power to be exposed however that will
> > take time. I also want to widgetise everything so we can reuse them in
> > other tools like a tracker powered file manager
>
> To be honest, the current UI is:
>
> - Broken
> - Badly written
> - Irrelevant

I agree

> In the current context of 0.7. Rewriting it would be hugely more 
> efficient use of time here. Integrating new and old will just waste more 
> time in my opinion.
>
> Plus, if you look at tracker-explorer, you can see how easy it is to 
> knock up a UI quickly using a higher level language like Vala.

yes i know but are you happy to delay a release unit I have rewritten
it?

Or can the release just be marked as not for distros - I know ubuntu
ships development releases so we have to be careful here. if nokia is
pressing for a release can they not do so internally?


> > > Well, we should be able to do this now already, I mean, if you look at
> > > the newly added tracker-sparql man pages :) then you can see some
> > > examples there. Also tracker-search uses FTS so you should probably look
> > > at that too.
> >
> > I dont see it there nor is it in tracker-sparql-query.vala
>
> What branch are you using, we are now on master!

Latest Master of course!

jamie