Re: [Tracker] New deskbar plugin

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2006/10/31, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk 
> <mailto:jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>>:
>
>     Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
>      > 2006/10/30, Ulrik Mikaelsson <ulrik mikaelsson gmail com
>     <mailto:ulrik mikaelsson gmail com>
>      > <mailto:ulrik mikaelsson gmail com
>     <mailto:ulrik mikaelsson gmail com>>>:
>      >
>      >     About DeskBar,
>      >
>      >     I recently got a patch in, that adds support for arguments to
>      >     tracker-search-tool. Might be an idea to add an action to deskbar
>      >     that launches tracker-search-tool with the specified query?
>      >
>      >
>      > Yeah, that should be trivial. Almost exactly a copy of
>      > deskbar/handlers/beagle-static.py. I might take a look at this if
>     I find
>      > the time..
>      >
>      >
>      >     Regards
>      >     / Ulrik
>      >
>      >
>      >     On 10/26/06, * tobutaz gmail com <mailto:tobutaz gmail com>
>     <mailto:tobutaz gmail com <mailto:tobutaz gmail com>>*
>      >     < tobutaz gmail com <mailto:tobutaz gmail com>
>     <mailto:tobutaz gmail com <mailto:tobutaz gmail com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >         On 10/25/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <
>      >         mikkel kamstrup gmail com
>     <mailto:mikkel kamstrup gmail com> <mailto:mikkel kamstrup gmail com
>     <mailto:mikkel kamstrup gmail com>>> wrote:
>      >         >  2006/10/25, tobutaz gmail com
>     <mailto:tobutaz gmail com> <mailto: tobutaz gmail com
>     <mailto:tobutaz gmail com>> <
>      >         tobutaz gmail com <mailto:tobutaz gmail com>
>     <mailto:tobutaz gmail com <mailto:tobutaz gmail com>>>:
>      >         >  > Silly me; I'm attaching the correct version.
>      >         >
>      >         >  Great! I wrote the original tracker-search.py and I
>     like what
>      >         you did. I
>      >         >  like italic parent dirs better though as the two-line bold
>      >         text looks rather
>      >         >  heavy. Micro-mod attached.
>      >         >
>      >         >  Anyway, I think this might do good in Tracker cvs. I was
>      >         initially planning
>      >         >  on adding it to deskbar cvs (and that's still not
>     impossible),
>      >         but we have
>      >         >  been talking about outsourcing some of the handlers
>     (namely
>      >         app-specific
>      >         >  ones).
>      >         Apparently deskbar will get a plugin manager in the
>     spirit of
>      >         KNewStuff:
>      >         http://live.gnome.org/DeskbarApplet/PluginManager
>      >         I guess that means plugins can safely be implemented
>     externally.
>      >
>      >         >  Jamie: I can add this to Trackers cvs in the python
>     dir. No
>      >         installation or
>      >         >  autotools-fu. Just stick it there so users compiling
>     tracker
>      >         can install the
>      >         >  handler them selves...
>      >         Add it to tracker CVS; we need a reference somewhere.
>
>     MIkkel, should I add this to tracker cvs? Or will it go into Deskbar
>     CVS?
>
>
> Well... That's the question! :-D  We (deskbar devs) are discussing 
> whether or not to outsource some of the handlers, but we have not 
> reached a conclusion. I'll have a word with the other deskbar devs, and 
> try and reach a conclusion.
>
> However as long as there is no decision I think it would be ok to have 
> it in tracker cvs, just to let users have "easy" access to it.

okay no problem

I assume if you can auto-detect tracker then deskbar could use it 
automatically for searches without needing a plug-in?

It would be nice if stuff just works (slab is good example which tries 
to auto-detect and use beagle without any fumbling around)



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Mr Jamie McCracken
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