[Thunar-dev] Recent document support

[Erlend Davidson]

Biju Chacko wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:59:53 +0530, Benedikt Meurer  
> <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> Erlend Davidson wrote:
>>     
>>> I think metatracker is another implementation of tagging?  It apparently
>>> has no problem with scalability.
>>> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker
>>>       
>> Ehm, did you ever tried to launch that? It takes around 2-3 minutes to
>> start here while the index contains only parts of my home dir. I dunno
>> what you'd call a scalability problem, but atleast in my world, that is
>> a scalability problem.
>>     
>
> This one is even sillier -- it has an embedded *mysql* database!
>   
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15216&limit=no&threshold=-1
The developer claims he wanted to use firebird (because apparently it 
was made for this purpose) but he chose mysql because it's the only open 
source database that supports fulltext indexing.