Re: [Tracker] runtime checking for tracker availability

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> Is there an easy *clean* way to check if tracker is installed at 
> runtime? I thinking here namely on the deskbar handler which needs to do 
> this.
>
> I have been playing around with some dbus stuff. I need a call to check 
> whether tracker is available without starting it (via dbus activation)!
>
> dbus.bus.ListActivatableNames was added in dbus 0.91.0 but edgy only has 
> 0.70.0...

you could check for the tracker service file in usr/dbus-1/services

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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