[maemo-developers] GSoC2010 global search application proposal discussion

[From: Shapeshifter]

On 21/03/10 21:43, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Shapeshifter<shapeshifter at archlinux.us>  wrote:
>    
>> == Global Search Application
>> An application which indexes local files and content and supports searching
>> for files and content in a convenient and appealing fashion as well as
>> opening results in their respective application.
>>      
> Maemo 5 uses Tracker 0.6 to consolidate most of metadata of files
> indexed already.
> Harmattan (Maemo 6) is extensively using current Tracker master branch
> and utilizing SparQL language as its query mechanism.
> Tracker master (0.7.x) and Tracker 0.6 use different storage backend
> and query mechanisms, it is quite a big difference, and it seems most
> of non-file based data is going to be indexed as well, according to
> the ontologies being developed.
>
> You can find current maemo-specific modifications of Tracker at
> http://maemo.gitorious.org/tracker/, these are synced well with
> Tracker master at gnome.org.
>
> If you want to develop something useful for Maemo 5 and 6 indexing, it
> would logically be good to at least learn what is happening in this
> area already and co-operate with existing code running on the device.
>    
I see, thanks for the hint! I saw this "tracker" on the project proposal 
page and
it didn't catch my attention because I thought it was somehow refering 
to the bug
tracker or something. I was wondering what it did there and  I didn't 
realize it
was a project itself! That makes a lot of sense, no doubt. I'm reading 
through
the Tracker wiki on gnome.org now to learn more about how the whole 
thing works.
Building on tracker for a desktop search app would of course be the most 
obvious
thing to do!
Thanks again.

Regards,
Carol