Re: [Tracker] just discovered gls3

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2006/12/14, Jon Phillips <jon rejon org>:

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:50 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Erlend Davidson wrote:
> > Well, won't GLS3 obsolete Tracker once it's finished and stable
> > (which will take a much longer time than it will take Tracker)?  Is
> > it an entirely new filesystem, or a filesystem that lives on top of
> > an existing one?
>
> its not a physical file system and does not really do anything that
> tracker does not
>
> It uses FUSE to expose a user space filesystem in the same way that
> tracker uses trackerdFS and beagle uses BeagleFS
>
> Its similiar to tracker but written in C++ and so uses different
> technologies.
>
> I expect it to be much heavier than tracker though as its using Postgres
> and not Sqlite like tracker.
>
> Also no Dbus and no C bindings so its not really feaible for Gnome or
> XFCE at the moment. I dont think there is any integration with any gnome
> stuff (Deskbar or Nautilus)
>
> Also seems to lack RDF ability for the metadata but otherwise is pretty
> close to tracker in both scope and target audience (IE its not just a
> dedicated indexer like Beagle or Strigii and like tracker closely
> couples DB and Indexer).

it seems to me that the greatest place for these softwares to share code
is in the various ways these services are exposed. i'm thinking gui:
search, indexing, preferences, etc. what do you all think are areas
where these projects can work together (which is vital).

This is partially the goal of the Wasabi unification project. It is currently discussed on the xdg list at freedesktop.org (look for the "simple search api" threads).

The first goals of Wasabi is to come up with a unified dbus api for desktop search engines. With that it is possible to write a generic gui.

Cheers,
Mikkel