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- General:
- * Extended XESAM support
- * Automatic language detection
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- Application Support:
- * Balsa mboxes
- * Brasero integration
- * Epiphany integration (bookmarks and history)
- * Rhythmbox integration
- * Tomboy notes indexing
- * Modest, a mobile email client (much work already exists in svn trunk)
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- Search:
- * Search filtering (e.g. search within specific folders)
- * Search results that update in real time
- * Search within archives
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- Internal:
- * Crawler to move to Indexer
- * FTS support (replacement of QDBM, the current index db)
- * Enables "exact phrase" searches
- * Enables wildcard searches
- * Enables prefix searches (pre*)
- * Denormalised tables
- * Better libtracker support for Maemo platform applications?
- * Plugins
- * For Evolution
- * For KMail
- * For Thunderbird
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- 2007 Tracker SoC project ideas:
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- 1. HAL integration into Tracker, for handling removable media (done)
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- 2. Linux kernel watchless file notification system for Tracker
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- * Currently we are using inotify which is not optimal for watching entire
- trees. (OSX has kernel file notifications by contrast)
- * Implement a loadable module for the kernel which allows all file activity
- to be passed to userspace Tracker
- * Ideally should make use of netlink
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- 3. Extend the GTK Tracker Widget Library
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- * Include a generic search result widget
- o A reusable widget which can show results from tracker
- o widget should allow paging of results via scrolling instead of
- buttons (downloading of all search results in one go is not allowed
- so it needs to be smart)
- o Widget should be able to seamlessly switch into multiple views
- (icon, list, compact list)
- o Add special view when all results are exclusively Music based.
- View should show a sorted list of music metadata album, artist etc
- (similar to rhythmbox music view)
- o widget should offer basic file management including drag and drop,
- deletes, renames via popup menu
- o widget should allow watermarking of background (use cairo) with a
- definable pixmap
- o widget should allow an optional popup preview when moused over for
- a few seconds (kind of like knoqueror does)
- * RDF Query widget
- o mockup: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=80132&action=view
- o The Rhythmbox automatic playlist may also serve useful as inspiration
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- 4. Better KDE Integration
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- * Improve basic GUI with corresponding features from the GNOME GUI
- (tags, metadata tile, thumbnails)
- * add ability to index KContacts and KNotes
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- 5. Add XMP Sidecar and IPTC support to tracker
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- * implement an XMP compatible parser (using glib xml parser)
- * backup all user defined metadata into XMP sidecar format
- * allow indexing of sidecar files when indexing a file so users can edit
- these files to add metadata
- * extract IPTC metadata embedded into images
- * see GNOME bug #401664
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- 6. Networked Tracker
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- * Use avahi/dbus to locate remote tracker servers. Could make use of ssh
- or as suggested use gabriel.
- * Api would need to be added to add support for retrieving list of servers
- * TST would need to be changed to list all available servers to use and
- allow user to pick one
- * If using DBus over ssh then could use seahorse for ssh key pairing
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