Re: GtkSearchEngineTracker

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 22:02 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
>> I have created a branch for the updated tracker backend used for
>> searching in the GtkFileChooser. Any comments?
>>
>>    http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/log/?h=tracker-with-libtracker-sparql
>>
>> I blogged about it with a video to demonstrate the functionality:
>>
>>    http://blogs.gnome.org/mr/2010/12/07/gtksearchenginetracker/
>>
>> If no one objects I will merge this branch by the end of the week.
>
> On the first sight it looks good. I'm for disabling FTS by default, it
> makes people confused. Tried to convince people in bug 612725 [1] some
> time ago. Perhaps the changes made to GtkSearchEngineTracker should be
> backported to Nautilus so that users will get consistent experience. And
> perhaps we could come up with an unified public class so that we stop
> modifying two different places.

I agree with Tomas, that merging this (without FTS) should be fine for
3.0. I admit that I have also pondered dropping the beagle backend
(nautilus has done the same recently).

Medium-term, it would be god to redo this entire thing as an extension
point in gio, maybe, and share it with nautilus.