Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Jamie McCracken"> > >> sorry, is anything else still unclear? > > Go back to my mail, read it again, and start from the beginning. What is it, > what does it do, why is it important? Tell us a story with an elevator pitch > and use cases, not an essay with hypotheticals. > > - Jeff >
(okay here goes - now that I have looked up what an "elevator pitch" is! I will try to be brief...) What is it? Tracker is a personal search tool and storage system that allows you to search and enhance your personal data with the minimum of fuss. It allows you to find the proverbial needle in your computer's haystack as well as providing a one stop solution to the organisation, storage and categorisation of your data. What does it do? Tracker trawls through your data and organises it so that it can be retrieved extremely quickly later on via simple searches. This organisation puts your data into categories so that application like photo managers and music players can instantly find relevant content automatically Tracker enables you to tag your data with keywords which can be used to find related information or to group and categorise your data further Tracker lets you extend your data with additional metadata Why is it important? Tracker provides a framework for desktop search which nearly all modern platforms provide Tracker provides fast search and fast indexing whilst using considerably less memory than its competitors such that it can be used on almost any reasonable machine. Tracker provides common storage for important data which enhances the performance and integration of your desktop Tracker makes it easy to access the files you want without navigating through painful hierarchies as is all too common these days. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
