[Thunar-dev] Beagle plugin for XFCE and/or Thunar ?

[Erlend Davidson]

mmassonnet at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:08:04PM +0200, Arnaud wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I would like to know if there is a plugin (in developpement or already done)
>> for Beagle integration in XFCE ?
>>     
>
> What has Thunar to do with Beagle?
>
> If it is some kind of "Search" feature, that's already closed IMHO,
> since Thunar is a File Manager, and not a Find My Files software. 
I think people have come to expect a search feature in file managers, 
and if we look at Tracker in particular it is not just a simple desktop 
search tool but also incorporates tagging of files... which is quite 
useless without a file manager to read those tags and organise files 
accordingly.

Over a year ago there were discussions on this list about incorporating 
a tagging filesystem in thunar:
http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/thunar-dev/2006-July/003202.html
The problem then was that none of the solutions were practical: 
cross-desktop and scalable.  Tracker seems to be very stable now and I 
think it's in Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon by default.

Erlend