Re: SoC idea: desktop file cache

2011-04-15 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Martyn Russell wrote: > > Sounds like a god idea. I try to be modest, but it's hard to turn down deification... > At this point, I would like to just mention that Tracker already mines > applications and it is REALLY fast at this. My first reaction is fear here

Re: SoC idea: desktop file cache

2011-04-15 Thread Colin Walters
Hi Martin, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > Just for the record I would like to explain the approach that we have > had in Ubuntu since December 09. It might not be too useful any more, > but can perhaps at least give some pointers. Vincent didn't like it > too much back

Re: SoC idea: desktop file cache

2011-04-15 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: > > But we still want the merge logic to build menus. So it sounds to me > that what you want is to make gnome-menus use a mmaped file. Well, what I think a simple first step is for gnome-menus to just categorize the results of g_desktop_app_in

Re: [Usability] gnome 3

2011-04-15 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 04/14/2011 01:04 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > There's a whiteboard for that: > https://live.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/SwitchGuidance > > Feel free to discuss it there. Mmm... surprisingly, I fully agree with what's written in there. :-) Is the page still under definition, or can we consider