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

[Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be>]

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On 21/09/2014 19:03, Ralph Böhme wrote:

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.

Great! Thanks for joining

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> > 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.

Ok, fair enough.

> > I'll be happy to answer any further questions you have.

Great. We'll first need to investigate Baloo itself before we can
answer where the shareable pieces are.

> *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]?

Relax, there's no A vs B in Vishesh's explanation.


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