Re: [Tracker] Tracker to do list

["Samuel Cormier-Iijima" <sciyoshi gmail com>]

Are live queries on the to do list? It would be a nice thing to have,
since the Beagle guys are flaunting about live query support with
their flash demos... :-) When do you think these will be ready?

Samuel

On 9/7/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> Im posting some to do items in case any of you lot have some spare time
> and want to use it hacking on tracker and help speed up development :)
>
> Documentation:
>
> 1) We need man pages for a lot of the tracker command line tools
>
> 2) I have some web pages designed by Peter Vander Klippe (thanks very
> much!).
>
> I have modded the colours and added some content and tango icons but
> still needs finishing off and fixing. Contact me for a copy of the website.
>
> You can see the website at:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/
>
>
>
> Python:
>
> Rhythmbox has some nice python plugin extensions for getting cover art
> and lyrics for songs. It would be cool if we could modify these so
> tracker can get this stuff too automatically when files are indexed.
>
> Tracker does not and cannot use python directly but it can of course
> call and spawn stand-alone programs written in any language.
>
> So two command line apps in python that take a no of parameters in (not
> sure which but could be artist, album and title?) and the final paramter
> should be the filename to store the lyrics or cover album png in (all of
> which tracker will supply)
>
>
>
> C programming:
>
> To pave the way for email indexing we will need  mail/mbox handling
> utilities.
>
> Suggest use GMime
> more info at http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/ and tutorial at
> http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/tutorial/
>
> We will need utility functions to :
>
>
> 1) parse entire mbox file - extracting message ID and all other fields
> into a GHashTable.
>
> 2) As (1) but parse only new mails (given a file offset of the last
> known email). All new mails are always appended to an mbox file.
>
> 3) work out whether a mail is marked as deleted or junk (evo and
> thunderbird use different flags in the email headers to determine this -
> google for the exact flags)
>
> 4) Extract plain text (we have an html filter in tracker already for html)
>
> 5) extract and decode mime attachments
>
> All the above should be easy to implement using GMime.
>
>
> Let me know if any of you plan on doing any of the above.
>
> --
> Mr Jamie McCracken
> http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/
>
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