Re: [Tracker] Tracker Support in Yelp

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Don Scorgie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since tracker has (possibly) been proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.18,
> I figured now would be a good time to ask.  Are there any plans / would
> it be possible to add support for searching documentation for Yelp
> (GNOME help browser)?
>
> Currently, yelp uses either beagle (if its available and compiled in) or
> its own "slow" search mechanism (which basically parses all the
> documentation yelp knows about searching for the given words) [1].  Most
> of the documentation is in docbook (XML) format [2].  Ideally, a tracker
> backend would also be able to search man and info pages (though, yelp
> can do this internally if necessary)[3].
>
> To make this feasible, it would be great if the documentation index was
> generated through the same mechanism yelp uses to generate its
> table-of-content (i.e. through scrollkeeper.  Ugh).  That way, the
> search results would include all the docs that yelp knows about, but no
> extra docs [4].
>
> I'd be willing to help out with getting this working (adding the backend
> to yelp, answering any questions etc.  though I'm not familiar with the
> tracker codebase), if you're interested.
>
> The other advantage [5] would be that if the documentation was tagged
> with "docs" or something, the search tool would be able to launch yelp
> with the relevant document (and correct section), when the result was
> displayed.

yes we do want to support this - at the moment we do not index help 
files but I will look into this. The more integrated tracker is in Gnome 
the better!


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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