Re: [Usability] spatial desktop

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:

> > > why not have a central repo for document specific data, rather than each
> > > application as nautilus or scribes/scratchpad using a app specific
> > > database.
> > >
> > > ~/.spatial/<doc-hash>
> > Actually, the desktop search engines around are planning on providing 
> > such things (random metadata for files). Tracker does this by design, 
> > and I think the beagle team is planning on providing a similar feature.
> i tend to disable system wide search, as i rarely use them.

What I meant is that this central repo for metadata is going to be 
provided by desktop search frameworks. It has *nothing* to do with the 
actual "search" functionnality, only with the metadata server one.

Moreover, being listening for changes on the fs might enable them to 
track file moves and such, thus allowing to notify apps about those.