Re: [Tracker] Deskbar Applet - to be or not to be?

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

On 23 March 2010 17:01, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So, I have been looking into the deskbar applet to figure out if we can and
> should fix it before the next 0.8 release briefly.
>
> Current issues with doing this work:
>
> - It is very out of date to the point where a re-write is almost more useful
> here (when talking about the current Tracker APIs)
> - GNOME shell will make any new work rather pointless as far as I understand
> it.
> - The current module also looks out of date according to the documentation
> on live.gnome.org for creating a plug-in for Deskbar.
> - We already have tracker-search-bar which does something similar here so we
> do have an alternative solution.
>
> So what I want to do is to find out if anyone is interested in fixing or
> re-writing this work before the 0.8 release or not? If not, then I will
> remove it in this week's release.

As one of the original stakeholders of this plugin I think it would be
fine if you just removed it. It's not like it is a point of no return
- or that it would be a huge problem to maintain outside the Tracker
sources.

-- 
Cheers,
Mikkel