[XESAM] Minutes of meeting 2007-05-15

[jamie]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 15:25 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 5/21/07, jamie <jamiemcc at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:56 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > > On 5/21/07, Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> 
> Sure, this could all be kept out of the source code itself and stored
> externally, like Glade.  My point was that the logic for what to
> display and how to display it is what's important here, more so than
> simply a list of fields.  Your TileMetadata is a good way to filter
> and perhaps order the data, but it lacks any layout which makes it
> little better than key-value.

well we will assume a 3x3 table as the tile so a maximum of nine
metadata types can appear in the tile

admittedly we could make it more sophisticated by using markup (EG col
span) to make it more customisable but at the end of the day the tile is
just a table (at least a gtk container based table) so am not sure it
needs a whole lot of hardcoding or layout beyond that?

jamie