Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-15 Thread Jamie McCracken
, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 11:31 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 10/04/10 22:10, Owen Taylor wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 11:43 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 18:09 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: Well, certainly tracking and indexing file metadata doesn't

Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-14 Thread Jamie McCracken
One way around all this is to provide interfaces which could use tracker or something else for base storage and notification of changes. In the future tracker may use CouchDb for storage of tags/notes and other user input metadata as being able to import/export to/from the cloud and across

Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 18:09 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: Tracker === In some testing, Tracker 0.8 seems enormously better behaved than Tracker 0.6. It has very significant optimizations in how it stores the tracker database on disk, and also, by default, only indexes defined subdirs of

Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 17:10 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: The reason I consider storage relevant is that throwing data into an optimized SQL database where you don't have any ability to control what is indexed or understanding how query plans are executed is usually a recipe for application

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-03 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 14:20 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote: Hi Naba! Does gnome-shell work without graphics capabilities? No, you need a hardware accelerated graphic card. So, basically my question is do you have official plan to support non-accelerated machines, or is it just a bug?

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Jamie McCracken
JS, whilst a good glue language, is nevertheless problematic in this it appears impotent (no native dbus support nor subclassing). I would only recommend it for scripting that does not need dbus. Currently a lot of code needs to be written in C to make up for these shortfalls in Gnome-Shell so I

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-02 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:12 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: My initial understanding of the Zeitgeist engine was that it was a data collection engine to collect a rich view of how the user used their computer over time, which would then be used to build an OLPC style journal

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-30 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 11:18 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 00:08 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: The problem is that to leverage the full power of tracker, you need much deeper integration and its not practical to make it optional in those cases

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-29 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:51 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 22:25 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote: But in previous GNOME release we accepted stuff like PolicyKit or DeviceKit or PulseAudio while not yet officially released or widely adopted. And those stuff was needed to be

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-29 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 23:13 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 19:38 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: this is all hypothetical. What matters is that people actually try it out then make judgements based on whether the current tracker gives a good experience. If people dont do

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-27 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 20:54 +0100, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: Martyn Russell schrieb: On 27/10/09 14:50, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: Martyn Russell schrieb: Carlos Garnacho and I did spend 2 or 3 days writing an application similar to spotlight - although it is just a quick mock up to

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-16 Thread Jamie McCracken
There has to be migration - i can never remember all my evo account settings and im sure in corporate environments it would be a major source of technical call outs If it were for only Gnome 3 then maybe an exception can be made but for gnome 2.x, migration is critical IMO jamie On Fri,

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-16 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 15:15 +, Colin Walters wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Ross Burton r...@burtonini.com wrote: Not providing a migration path will probably delay adoption of dconf/gsettings into Debian because Debian tries it's hardest to preserve user configuration,

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-14 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:48 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:25 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 10:54 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Take 20,000 distro Gnome users, what percentage of them do you

Re: External dependency proposal: Vala

2009-10-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
I would rephrase this as valac as a build dependency for gnome as valac is like yacc/bison/flex in that there is no runtime dependency and only people developing or compiling from git will need it (tarballs and distributed source will contain the generated c files so wont be needed there) jamie

Re: Tracker, Zeitgeist, Couchdb...where is the problem ?

2009-08-19 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:50 +0100, John Carr wrote: CouchDB is also a storage but with a different philosophy. The nicest part is the synchronization... but maybe we could wrap tracker in a similar code to allow the online replication. This is just a wild guess. I think its possible -

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
The indexer part is optional The main part tracker-store is just a database with querying and is to be used by zeitgeist If the consensus is that indexer is not suitable for inclusion then the separate tracker-store should be considered for inclusion separately the store does not do any

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:18 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 18/08/09 16:18, Jamie McCracken wrote: The indexer part is optional Well, right now it isn't but it will be at some point sure. The main part tracker-store is just a database with querying and is to be used by zeitgeist

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:20 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Jamie McCrackenjamie.mccr...@googlemail.com wrote: The indexer part is optional The main part tracker-store is just a database with querying and is to be used by zeitgeist If the consensus is

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:44 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 18/08/09 16:07, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 18.08.09 13:05, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote: Hmm. The beef I have with Tracker (and Beagle fwiw) is that they build something on infrastructure that currently is not

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:50 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: Xan Lopez wrote: It can be used directly by applications that feed it data through an API. Zeitgeist is an example, another could be bookmarks/history storage in Epiphany. Do you mean storing actual bookmarks into the database ?

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:57 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 18/08/09 16:57, Jamie McCracken wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:44 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 18/08/09 16:07, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 18.08.09 13:05, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote: Hmm. The beef I have

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:02 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 18/08/09 17:03, Jamie McCracken wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:57 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: We already do that. But some projects have a LOT of directories ;) do we? It still indexes all source files for me. Just to be clear

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:11 +, Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jamie McCrackenjamie.mccr...@googlemail.com wrote: we could use the Gtk Recent files stuff for this and that would work for ordinary users but not devs fetching source code or other command line

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 19:40 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:14 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 18/08/09 17:11, Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jamie McCrackenjamie.mccr...@googlemail.com wrote: we could use the Gtk Recent files stuff for

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 19:21 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: Hi Jamie, On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 11:32 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: Couldn't you just make gio (or gedit or OpenOffice) notify you every time it closes a file instead of monitoring bazillions of files? I'm not very likely

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 18 août 2009, à 20:19 +0200, Philip Van Hoof a écrit : We'll do our best and are committed to formulate our answers in a non-vague way and improve the communication of the project's members, about the project, towards the

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:57 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 18.08.09 14:48, Jamie McCracken (jamie.mccr...@googlemail.com) wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 18 août 2009, à 20:19 +0200, Philip Van Hoof a écrit : We'll do our best

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 19:52 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: I didn't say that and that is not the case either. I did talk to various people about improving the problems we have at GCDS this year. I also am not against fixing it or helping towards fixing it. I just resent people saying that we

Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0

2009-04-19 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 17:26 +0200, Matteo Settenvini wrote: Il giorno dom, 19/04/2009 alle 14.31 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi ha scritto: On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 14:34 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: I think it would be a big mistake to omit applets in the new gnome desktop evolution.

Re: dconf

2009-04-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 17:11 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 10 avril 2009 à 15:15 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Just a stupid question... Why should we switch to GSettings? Ie, what does it bring us that we can't do with gconf? So far, I heard a performance argument. Anything

Re: dconf

2009-04-03 Thread Jamie McCracken
Also I would imagine a dconf-editor app would not be practical without schemas especially for settings of type bool/enum where you want a checkbox/dropdown jamie On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 09:20 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: Hi, On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
process file change notifications while running on battery power. thanks thats a good idea (I assume I can use dbus to get the info so dont have to depend on any gnome stuff) please consider adding enhancement requests to: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=tracker -- Mr Jamie

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
Joe Shaw wrote: Hi, Jamie McCracken wrote: point 2 is scheduled at nice +19 (same with Ionice +7) so it only uses more cpu if its idle. That's not quite how the nice level works, at least in Linux. Higher nice values get a shorter timeslice, so they merely have less time to get

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
needs. -- 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

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
Joe Shaw wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:47 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote: Jamie McCracken wrote: in any event tracker can be configured to not index at all or only index metadata and/or contents. It can also be used a stand alone metadata DB so I think tracker should be flexible

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
Joe Shaw wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:26 +, Jamie McCracken wrote: Joe Shaw wrote: [snipped my concerns about Tracker] all these also apply to EDS too yet no one complains? Some of them apply. EDS isn't a general data store; it has APIs and backends that are very specific

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
-- 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

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
player, find video for in your video player, find contacts, email and everything in less than a split second! yes that is a good approach -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Jamie McCracken
with some tweaking as others have suggested - especially places menu) -- 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

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Jamie McCracken
to search apps. Its much better to have the general search/deskbar applet as it is (an applet in the panel) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Jamie McCracken
also add that nautilus search without beagle or tracker is barely usable and appallingly slow so its not only the new menu thats suffering here. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-08 Thread Jamie McCracken
tracker should be flexible enough for most cases where you only want a subset of its features. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-08 Thread Jamie McCracken
criticisms should have been met. API churn is not relevant to desktop modules AFAIK although I am expecting only minor adjustments there. * (http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=173) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-08 Thread Jamie McCracken
Steve Frécinaux wrote: Jamie McCracken wrote: in any event tracker can be configured to not index at all or only index metadata and/or contents. It can also be used a stand alone metadata DB so I think tracker should be flexible enough for most cases where you only want a subset of its

Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
ended but I expect the default should be no search until at least tracker gets into GNOME :) (Tracker is still under proposal for Gnome 2.18) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-26 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: The RDF way would be (triples): hasPersonalEmail --- rdfs:subPropertyOf --- hasEmail hasWorkEmail --- rdfs:subPropertyOf --- hasEmail RossBurton --- hasWorkEmail --- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-26 Thread Jamie McCracken
Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: James Doc Livingston wrote: What would be really cool is support for field groups, but that would probably require a fairly large change. So you could do things like correctly storing the release dates when a track

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
types, but that is necessary for the metadata to stay useful when doing generic queries. yeah thanks that makes sense -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 24 octobre 2006, à 21:33, Jamie McCracken a écrit : It would be nice as tracker is a freedesktop thingie to avoid evolution I've read several times that tracker is a freedesktop thingie/project/insert another word here. Do you mean it's desktop agnostic or do

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
James Henstridge wrote: On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would need to completely flatten the metadata as Contact.HomeJabberID, Contact.WorkJabberID etc so that all metadata is mapped 1:1 If you do flatten things like this, I would hope you'd still be able to query

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
James Doc Livingston wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:33 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: A contact can only have one metadata value per type (this is a primary key constraint) With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:39 +0100, Jamie

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:12 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them Why would you need a 1:1 mapping to do a query? A query for contacts with an email of [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be possible independent

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: looking at evolution's contacts screen it does not look like its support more than one work email (it has home, work and other) Incorrect, the type is a combo. If you want to add four work email addresses

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: Not being able to handle multiplicative metadata would make some things very awkward. For example what should happen with music that has multiple artists? I think that supporting multiple values for a piece

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jamie McCracken wrote: I'm thinking of decent genre support, so multiple genre tags per song (as supported in Ogg). If a song has Song.Genre=Post Rock,Ambient and I search for rock, will the substring search incorrectly match the song? Yes it will unfortunately - hopefully these corner

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Nick Murtagh wrote: Jamie McCracken wrote: Contact.HomeEmailAddress : [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact.WorkEmailAddress : [EMAIL PROTECTED] note using semicolon as delimiter so contents would need to be escaped for the semicolon. I guess standardising on semicolon delimiters

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
James Henstridge wrote: On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Henstridge wrote: While having standard names for metadata relationship types that everyone can use is great, there are going to be cases where apps want to experiment with relationships that haven't yet

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:41 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: I'm thinking of decent genre support, so multiple genre tags per song (as supported in Ogg). If a song has Song.Genre=Post Rock,Ambient and I search for rock, will the substring search incorrectly match the song

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:06 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: I do wonder why nobody has taken a fast database-backed RDF triple store (from librdf), put a sparql-based frontend on it for queries (again from librdf) and used re-used a lot of code from both Beagle and Tracker

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
to answer them on this list but that should not have any bearing on whether tracker is adopted or not. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: 2006-10-25 klockan 12:27 skrev Jamie McCracken: Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:12 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them Why would you need a 1:1 mapping to do a query? A query for contacts

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
for love in all the wrong places. They fight crime! -- 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

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
or not it wont make a difference to the functionality tracker offers. -- 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

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Don Scorgie wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:07 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jamie McCracken t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a better search tool because it can show search snippets like google as well as providing

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Sanford Armstrong wrote: On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:07 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jamie McCracken t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a better search tool because it can

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Dan Winship wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 21:26 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: First to clarify, tracker is not a dedicated indexer (like Beagle and Strigi) but is first and foremost a database which has indexing as a side feature. Are there any *currently existing* GNOME applications

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
then I will reconsider (If any experts in that area wish to supply me with the equivalent metadata in the spec I will seriously consider it) (probably best to do so on tracker mailing list to avoid more noise on d-d-l before we get complaints) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Luca Ferretti wrote: Il giorno gio, 19/10/2006 alle 03.10 +0100, Jamie McCracken ha scritto: Hi, We have just released a new stable version of tracker (0.5.0) which can be found here: http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.0.tar.bz2 I would like to propose this for inclusion

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
James Henstridge wrote: On 24/10/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Burton wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:26 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: I think that the idea Ross is trying to get across here is that rather than having a flat namespace of metadata types, you want

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Luca Ferretti wrote: PPS what about a bugzilla entry? I asked for one about 6 months ago (I emailed the bugzilla team but got no reply) If anyone could help set up a bugzilla entry that would be great (or point me to the appropriate procedure) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote: Em Ter, 2006-10-24 às 17:09 +0100, Jamie McCracken escreveu: The only thing slowing down further integration is getting into gnome or being an accepeted dependency - hopefully a chicken and egg situation can be avoided here Why don't you create

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 23:21 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: The main reason was I didn't like the way GNOME uses loads of different, inefficient and incompatible means of storing information (think Berkeley DB for EDS, MBox for emails, the zillions of small performance

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 20:04 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: Only Files at the moment. We have preliminary Email support but its not complete yet. The Api would be specific to each object and would be analogous to the methods on a class. Can you point to the API

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:33 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: Next up we would define the basic metadata or properties of the object (EG Contact.FirstName, Contact.Surname, Contact.EmailAddress etc along with their types) and add these to the metadata types table $ grep EVC_

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
. -- 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

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
so that it can be imported by all three. -- 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

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 21:26 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: First to clarify, tracker is not a dedicated indexer (like Beagle and Strigi) but is first and foremost a database which has indexing as a side feature. Jamie, can you please explain what exactly

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
Hubert Figuiere wrote: [ cross-post reduced d-d-l ] Jamie McCracken wrote: Some people might not like that but I think its a practical compromise. With tracker being the only one written in pure C it is therefore the only one that can *ultimately* get into the Gnome platform and be fully

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jamie McCracken As this stage I am simply proposing tracker-search-tool as a replacement for the gnome-search-tool as I believe it does a better job with faster instant search and search snippets. That was not entirely clear from previous emails in this thread

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jamie McCracken t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a better search tool because it can show search snippets like google as well as providing high speed search. And it does so by using... Tracker? Which means you're not just

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
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

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jamie McCracken (okay here goes - now that I have looked up what an elevator pitch is! I will try to be brief...) This is a pretty airy-fairy description for a developer mailing list. Your audience is not my Mum, it's the group of people architecting GNOME

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jamie McCracken This is a pretty airy-fairy description for a developer mailing list. Your audience is not my Mum, it's the group of people architecting GNOME. You did not include use cases in your description. Use Cases: Jamie, these are not use cases

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-20 Thread Jamie McCracken
, would they use Beagle or Tracker APIs? To search these values, Beagle would have to also index them. Does it make sense to essentially store them twice? My feeling lately is that these should probably be the same thing. fair enough -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-20 Thread Jamie McCracken
but couldn't be used in the cool new slab menu! and it also means I dont have to fork your stuff too :) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-19 Thread Jamie McCracken
Elijah Newren wrote: On 10/18/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a bit late in the hour but I should be in the nick of time as the new modules proposals deadlines ends in a few hours! Actually...as per the release schedule, although freezes are graphically shown

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-19 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:12 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: It also has fully extensible metadata and a desktop wide tag/keyword database so apps can use it to store all their metadata about any first class object (also kind of nice for integrating with the new G-VFS

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-19 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 03:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: We have just released a new stable version of tracker (0.5.0) which can be found here: http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.0.tar.bz2 I would like to propose this for inclusion into Gnome 2.18 as its

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-19 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Sebastien Bacher Le jeudi 19 octobre 2006 à 13:36 +0100, Jamie McCracken a écrit : We will be pushing for this in ubuntu edgy+1 Will we? Where has this been decided? I think by we, Jamie means the tracker folk. yes thats right - just lobbying and making

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-19 Thread Jamie McCracken
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:21 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: I also dont see the significance of a proposed app needing to be in widespread use as the whole purpose of a four month period between proposal and acceptance is precisely to try them out! Not really

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-19 Thread Jamie McCracken
it you dont have a problem with tracker being used as a stand alone metadata DB in conjuction with beagle? (I can add a compile option to remove the indexing parts if it will help?) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel

Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-18 Thread Jamie McCracken
tool and if accepted it should replace this. I know this is a bit late in the hour but I should be in the nick of time as the new modules proposals deadlines ends in a few hours! -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel

Re: Glade 3.0 stable branched

2006-10-10 Thread Jamie McCracken
!) and stetic is for constructing mono based apps only (AFAICT). -- 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

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Jamie McCracken
and gamin use identical inotify code, so it is hard to see what would be improved by using one over the other... hopefully the new G-VFS proposal will provide the interfaces/hooks to the available file notification mechanisms (just in case one is more suitable over NFS than the other). -- Mr Jamie

Re: ToPaZ, anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
to do is to code up these prototypes - having working code is half way towards making agreement and acceptance a reality (IE its far harder to argue for something radically different if there's no code to show) just my penny for a thought... -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com

Re: getting on a longer release cycled

2006-09-07 Thread Jamie McCracken
how topaz will transpire but I feel it should be written in a native high level language like D or Vala as its likely to be a rewrite of much of the existing code and could be doable in 9 months with a more productive language. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com

Re: gnome desktop integration library

2006-09-05 Thread Jamie McCracken
to be used as a backend (which would probably default to POSIX and ini files respectively). Bear in mind XFCE also uses gtk so I dont think for example directly exposing Gnome-vfs would be a good idea (they already have their own simpler vfs). -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com

Re: Deskbar Applet, NewStuffManager, 2.16, Installing New Plug-Ins, AutoUpdate, etc.

2006-08-01 Thread Jamie McCracken
? ___ Cant python be sandboxed? not sure if it helps in this case or not as I bet you want the python code to have full access to the system. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-24 Thread Jamie McCracken
(and Tomboy too if maintainer allows) is one way of improving things in that regard. Im not commiting myself to fixing all your gripes in sticky notes just giving it a bit of tracker power that will hopefully make them more manageable and powerful. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com

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