2007/2/19, Max Wiehle <<a href="mailto:max.wiehle@gmail.com">max.wiehle@gmail.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, Hope it's okay if i just jump right into the discussion. I just read about wasabi on a dashboard-hackers and i am quite interested in it so i tried to catch up with the mailing list archive. I worked on a metadata store for beagle during last years Summer of Code and i am still trying to follow what happens on the desktop search / metadata side of things as time permits. Am Sonntag, den 18.02.2007, 21:15 +0100 schrieb Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen: > > Ok. If we are to standardize something like this, I would assume that > we use dbus for rpc - as far as I can tell that doesn't seem to be a > problem..? Fx a dbus api like: > >  - AddFile (in as metadata, in s input_file) >  - AddText (in as metadata, in s text) > > where the metadata argument contains things such as uri, mime, and hit > type (in some specified order (and maybe some > filtering/stemming/whatnot info)). The AddFile method sorta replaces > the "drop-in-special-dir" approach - the drop-in-special-dir method > could still be allowed for apps not talking dbus. The AddText method > should encapsulate the functionality of Beagles' current > IndexServiceRequest/Indexable duo. Maybe it would be possible to have a   - AddMetadata (in as metadata, in s uri) as well. This could be used for all kinds of metadata that is added to a object aside from indexing. fx tags, emblems, notes in nautilus. Or epiphany might add "downloaded_from" to a files metadata - saved attachements could be marked as belonging to a certain email and vice versa etc.</blockquote><div> Agreed. I figure this belongs under the Wasabi metadata spec and api - which is yet to be discussed. Maybe I better kick that off soonish - the search spec relies on some bits and pieces from it anyway. The two methods I mention is specifically only targeting an indexer since I don't think it should be a requirement to both an indexer and metadata storage. </div> Is there any where we can have a look at your work? Cheers, Mikkel </div>