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Hey there!
Another report here with a look-back at what I did this week and
what is planned for the next week, so here we go:
- I started to write a Totem plugin which allows searching for
recent media logged in Zeitgeist, so far it's very similar to the
Youtube plugin (probably because I borrowed the UI from there), but it
indeed does search Zeitgeist. There were a few pecularities with the
plugin, so I'll rant here a bit about the documentation - if
TotemVideoList requires a reference to TotemObject, it'd be nice to
mention this in the documentation - it's far from obvious that one
needs to call g_object_set (video_list, "totem", totem_obj, NULL) for
it to not crash when one clicks on an item in the widget. Then there
were some other crashes when I didn't set "tooltip-column" property,
but ok, that one wasn't that hard to figure out.
The plugin was pushed to zeitgeist-dataproviders[1], but as Seif said,
it's not a dataprovider, so he removed it from there, and so far I do
not know where we'll push these non-logging plugins. Anyway it's there
but you have to revert to revision 78.
- I helped Seif with Sezen, cause I got quite different data and it
was loading very slowly for me - so I tried to use everywhere async gio
calls, and after some tweaking it was working much better. Btw. Siegfried just pushed Sezen to Zeitgeist PPA [2], so
feel free to check it out.
- I was still quite unhappy with the
responsiveness of Sezen, so I ported it to Vala [3], but to my surprise
the thumbnail fetching in the Vala version is *much* slower than in the
python version and I don't really know why. In both python and Vala,
I'm trying to load all the thumbnails at once, and while in python this
works fine, I was getting "too many open files" error in Vala, so I
introduced an async method which limits how many thumbnails can be
being fetched at one time (while the others are waiting) and that seems
to work quite well, but I still have a feeling that the python version
is faster.
For next week the plan is to implement also "related
media" into the new Totem plugin, take a look on the vim logger, which
I noticed is sitting on LP without being "official" part of
zeitgeist-dataproviders. And talk to Seif what to do about Sezen /
Sezen-vala.
[1]
https://code.launchpad.net/~zeitgeist-dataproviders/zeitgeist-dataproviders/trunk
[2] https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist/+archive/ppa
[3] https://code.launchpad.net/~mhr3/sezen/sezen-vala
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