Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Sebastian Pölsterl <sebp k-d-w org>]

Martyn Russell schrieb:
> On 27/10/09 03:34, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net
> > <mailto:ak-47 gmx net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Martyn Russell:
> >      > I would like to propose Tracker as a new GNOME module.
> >
> >     The GNOME release-team will soon decide about module inclusions for
> >     GNOME 2.30.
> >
> >     To the GNOME developers:
> >     If you have not commented yet, if there is anything to add, if you 
> > have
> >     questions to the maintainer: Please comment now.
> >
> >
> > I have one comment and I think from a marketing perspective, I would
> > like to see that we are on par with the other desktops. OSX has
> > spotlight, and I believe windows has winfs or at least it has something
> > built in.  We are doing ourselves no favors when we are not feature
> > complete against other desktops.
>
> 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 
> demonstrate the speed and ability of Tracker and could do with some more 
> love. The blog/video about it is here:
>
>   http://blogs.gnome.org/mr/2009/09/30/tracker-0-7-released/
Looks very much like Deskbar-Appplet in the very early days to me. You 
might just want to write a module for Deskbar.

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Sebastian Pölsterl