Il giorno gio, 08/07/2010 alle 11.07 -0400, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:00 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:57 +0200, Lorenzo Nizzi Grifi Gargiolli wrote:
> > > Il giorno gio, 08/07/2010 alle 10.50 -0400, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > What are the problems with TST?
> > >  
> > > > 
> > > TST is good, don't get me wrong, but it's pretty basic.It lacks one of
> > > the basic feature: if you type in the search bar "dog" you may have 30
> > > docs with the word "dog" but you cannot see the context! You can only
> > > see what docs have the word dog. A preview panel of the doc containing
> > > the word dog with the word highlighted could be a good start. But, I
> > > repeat, I dunno if it's possible. I only think it could be very
> > > useful.   
> > 
> > The fts:snippet functionality is not working at the moment. It isn't
> > trivial to get right either. So this is not a client issue as much as
> > the engine needs improving here.
> > 
> 
> yeah but its a very important one thats missing compared to 0.6 TST
> 
> I also dont think fts:snippet is the right way to do that as 0.6 TST
> used a spearate dbus call so it could be fetched async after the results
> were displayed (otherwise slow snippets would seriously slow down
> display of results)
> 
> sqlite fts returns the positions and metadata field for a hit so it
> should be easy to do. All thats needed is to expose fts:positions in
> sparql and provide a dbus method to get text from a position, metadata
> field and ID
> 
> jamie
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Glad to see that something can be done :-) I'm not in a  hurry. Just a
note. Consider that actually I'm using google desktop search for linux
ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY because the lack of contextual results in TST....
GDS is old and unmaintained but I can see where the word "dog" is :-P
Cheers


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