elementary OS

System-wide library system

Registered by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff

Create a one content library system to rule them all, instead of maitaining individual libraries in Noise, Shotwell, etc. It will greatly reduce duplication of effort and will make searching library of an app from different apps or system services.

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New
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Accepted for future
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Tracker seems to be the best option we have now, but it looks like the kernel itself is not quite ready for such things: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2011-September/msg00087.html
Specifically, we don't have a decent file monitoring facility, because inotify does not scale, while fanotify and LSM-based tricks like those used by rlocate do not detect file deletions and are only accessible to root.

We might want to follow http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-filemetadata-spec for metadata fields naming

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