Re: [Tracker] A suggestion...

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 21:32 -0700, Michael Lissner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been using tracker for a while now, and following this list for a 
> bit, and I thought I would mention something that doesn't seem to come 
> up here too much.
>
>  From the conversations I've heard, the back end design of Tracker is 
> pretty incredible, and an amazing amount of thought goes into making it 
> faster, better, stronger.
>
> Something I haven't heard though, and that seems conspicuously missing, 
> is discussion of the GUI. At present, it seems like it supports about 
> 10% of the functionality that the indexer creates. This seems like a 
> tragic situation, since almost all of the interaction with Tracker is 
> done through the GUI. So long as this is the case, all the back end work 
> doesn't really translate into much to the user (as far as I can tell).
>
> So, what I'm wondering is if there are any plans to bring it up to 
> speed? I'd bet it would really impress (and surprise) people to see what 
> Tracker can actually do!
>
> Thoughts? Reactions?

Im planning to rewrite the search tool in Genie as soon as vstore branch
hits master.  

I will make things more powerful but sadly the existing code C code for
the search tool is not very maintainable and is difficult to extend so
it has to go

jamie