[XESAM] Minutes of meeting 2007-05-15

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2007/5/21, jamie <jamiemcc at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:56 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 5/21/07, Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Not sure what you mean by "knowing how to display",
> >
> > Simply that code has to exist which pulls specific information
> > provided and displays it in an optimal way.  For instance, displaying
> > some sort of widget for a "person" rather than a URI.
> >
> > It must also know how to filter information so that a user isn't
> > overwhelmed.  For a person, inundating the user with all possible
> > information about that person in little more than a key-value format
> > isn't useful.  Otherwise we might as well just be displaying the FOAF
> > file itself and not bothering to parse it. :)
> >
> > > but when app encounters meta-data outside of the core or known onto,
> it has
> > > to deal with it nevertheless.
> >
> > Beagle's policy has always been to drop this information, actually.
> > If we can't present it sanely to the user, it probably won't be useful
> > to them.  (There is also the conscious decision that Beagle is just a
> > search tool -- it largely provides information "at a glance" to the
> > user; if they want details, another application is better suited than
> > we could ever be.)
> >
> > > The more structured the onto is, the more opportunities the app
> > > has to present/process the data properly.
> >
> > Sure, but doesn't the app have to know about this?
>
>
> not really. Tracker is moving away from hard coding stuff like this so
> that it can handle custom services with a tile based gui without a
> priori knowledge or any hardcoding.
>
> EG see our service def files (note the TileMetadata fields!)
>
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/tracker/trunk/data/services/default.service?view=markup



You mean by imposing a UIView and UIVisible property on each field and/or
category i take it..?

I can't really grok what the UIView property means...

Cheers,
Mikkel
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