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

[Ralph Böhme <rb netafp com>]

On 21 Sep 2014, at 20:20, Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be> wrote:

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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
>
> [cut]
>
> > > 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,

I AM RELAXED! ;)

> there's no A vs B in Vishesh's explanation.

I'm not concerned about A vs B but about A *and* B. :)

Cheerio!
-r

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