Re: [Tracker] The Utopian idea, Tracker as it should be

[Ralph Böhme <rb netafp com>]

Hi

On 21 Sep 2014, at 18:05, Vishesh Handa <me vhanda in> wrote:
> I thought I should chime in. I'm currently the maintainer of Baloo in KDE, and was the maintainer of the 
> Nepomuk project in KDE.
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be> wrote:
> > 3) Moving the ontologies to their own repo still looks like a good
> > idea, because there have been some tries to run tracker with custom
> > ontologies. A different repo makes it clear that the ontology is
> > not "hardcoded" in the store and can be customized "downstream".
>
> Yes. I think we need to lead and allow certain extensions and changes.
> Perhaps we should start with what Baloo and Nepomuk do agree on and
> gradually grow it as industries and use-cases join?
>
> We, in KDE, were quite fed up with the ontologies. With Baloo, we're no longer using any ontologies. The 
> project simple aims to be a good search index for files. Baloo does not store any data and is just an 
> index. The small amount of information that we need to store - user tags and ratings are stored in the 
> xattr of the files.
>
> The Nepomuk KDE project is pretty much dead.
>
> I'll be happy to answer any further questions you have.

*sigh*. Is this a Gnome vs KDE schism? Why Baloo? Why not adopt Tracker? What about applications that like to 
use a system search service [1]?

Cheerio!
-r

[1] <https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight>