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[Alex Launi <alex.launi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Katriel Traum
<katriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi.
> I initially thought that would be the way, but then remembered reading
> a thread in a forum where David Siegel wrote, and I agree: "Do is for
> interacting with things you know more about than something you would
> search for" (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3750654, #30).
> I think this is the way...
>

I disagree. Do is not a search tool, we index items to make them available
quickly, but your logic from Dave's comment does not follow. If that is the
case, then we shouldn't have a tracker plugin at all since you're still
searching. Do should be a first-class interface to your entire desktop.
Dave's comment refers to the core Do functionality, plugins that use a
service to search are excellent and extend Do's functionality immensely.
Look at the Locate plugin, which Dave himself wrote, basically the tracker
plugin should do the same thing but with Tracker's data. We can merge this
plugin in community either way since Community is just sort of a holding
place for all plugins not in main, regardless of quality, but I think this
plugin could be very useful if it had a higher level of integration with Do.

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--Alex Launi

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Plugin: Search with tracker-search-tool
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