From kde-usability Wed Jun 09 21:18:11 2004 From: Dik Takken Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:18:11 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Easier Searching in KDE Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=108681596405121 > Indexing may be useful for one plugin but useless to another. Metadata > extracting will probably be meaningless for most plugins. I disagree on this, though. For most plugins, metadata extraction would be great. Note when I say plugin I mean a specialized piece of software that extracts data/metadata from a file, then feeds it onto a searchable index. NOT a search UI plugin. Throughout this discussion, a search plugin is understood to be a piece of software that searches for anything that you could search for. A plugin to search for files is just one of many possibilities. And yes, metadata extracting is useful for files. But what is the meaning of the term 'metadata' for a Amazon.com DVD search plugin? What you are talking about is the internal working of the file search plugin. That's not primarily what this discussion is about. This discussion is about the general search framework of KDE and how to extend it to a much more generic and powerful tool. ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability