GSoC: Zeitgeist weekly report #3

[Michal Hruby <michal mhr gmail com>]

Hello,

I'll be also a bit early this time, as I'll be traveling starting 
tomorrow, so here we go:

This week I finished moving the build system in 
zeitgeist-dataproviders[1] to autotools, and even though it's not 
perfect yet (can't install properly firefox and chrome extensions, 
mostly because I don't know where to put them in the filesystem for it 
to just work), it's good enough to build all dataproviders. Also if 
anyone wants to make a package of the dataproviders, please contact me, 
I think it's good time to do it.

Further I had planned to write a totem extension, which would add some 
Zeitgeist goodness into it, but in the end this was postponed and 
instead I wrote a Rhythmbox plugin that adds a few smart playlists to 
Rhythmbox. This effort was slightly hindered by incomplete Rhythmbox 
bindings for Vala, but I decided to fix this and auto-generated the Vala 
bindings for pretty much the entire Rhythmbox, which really wasn't as 
easy as I expected, but it's now available on bugzilla[2].
Unfortunately I'm seeing some issues with the plugin - for example first 
time it's loaded it doesn't show anything, even though I am getting the 
data from Zeitgeist and calling RB's method to add them. I'll have to 
ask someone who knows the internals of RB why is that...

Also today Mikkel pushed some changes to libzeitgeist[3], so while 
looking at it, I discovered a little patch which was forgotten in my 
tree, and besides that I was trying to push some Vala goodness for the 
new API (foreach support), but I wasn't successful at convincing Mikkel 
that he needs to change the API a bit... yet :)

So that's about it, for the next week I don't plan much, as I'll be 
still traveling, but I hope to find some time to polish the new RB 
plugin, and if I find more time I'll take a stab at the Totem plugin.

Cheers.

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/zeitgeist-dataproviders
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621246
[3] https://code.launchpad.net/libzeitgeist