Re: [Tracker] Tracker and Contacts - use case discussion

["Adrien Bustany" <abustany gnome org>]

> > Facebook is mostly known for giving your data not to you, but to the
> > others ;)
> >
> > Thanks for the ideas though, which are quite good. I'm not exactly sure
> > what
> > we need, except people coding :)
>
>
> Woo
>
>
> > There is currently a completely unbalanced
> > situation between the possibilities offered by Tracker and RDF, and the
> > GUIs
> > using that :/
> True :(
> I suspect GUI vs sparql is going to run into some of the same problems as
> linked data vs displaying it generically + usefully in firefox will - but
> at
> least having a richer GUI library is going to let you go way beyond what
> HTML lets you do.

It is indeed hard to expose the underlying linked nature of the data, and it
is even harder to do it in a relevant way :) A common approach is to use
faceted search. Graphically exposing the graph syntax might be interesting
too, though I have yet to see it done well...

> I originally wrote #1 as "Evolution" rather than thunderbird - but I
> realized evolution has done a lot of the leg work to individually include
> libraries and achieve parts of this functionality.
>
> I don't suppose you know of any efforts to point evolution to tracker at
> all?

There is already an Evolution plugin for Tracker, but it targets only search
in emails, not linking to calendars etc. And also, you can't search for an
email in Tracker and open it in Evolution due to an Evolution limitation...

Cheers

Adrien