Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Application Indexing

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

> 1) we need to watch the dirs for desktop files (use
> tracker_add_service_path to watch /usr/share/applications)
>
> 2) we use (1) above to work out its a desktop file (im not sure about
> checking the extension is .desktop - Im only really interested in apps
> in /usr/share/applications)

/usr/share/applications is a good default, but you should also check
the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. This contains a list of paths
[2]. You should also check these paths (you have to append
"applications" to each element in XDG_DATA_DIRS).

Cheers,
Michael


[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.5.html
[2] eg. on Gentoo:
XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/local/share"