Archive for the ‘GNOME’ Category
On Metadata
The last release (Ubuntu 7.10) was the first in which we shipped Tracker enabled by default; this service runs in the background and indexes all of your files, storing information about them in a metadatabase which can subsequently be searched. The two main ways of searching are through the deskbar-applet (press Alt+F3) and within [...]
Online Desktop
Havoc’s keynote at GUADEC was extremely interesting, especially for how it polarised the people present.
Several people seemed very upset with the notion that f-spot should be replaced by flickr, but I think that was a problem with the way that Havoc presented the message, and not the underlying idea.
Instead consider f-spot and flickr as sharing [...]
