Re: [Tracker] Bug 509601: make tracker-extractor modular

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos imendio com>]

Hi!,

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:40 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 28/01/2008 alle 12.20 +0100, Carlos Garnacho ha scritto:
> > Hi!,
> >
> > In bug #509601 there's a patch attached to make extractors GModules, so
> > tracker-extractor loads them at startup instead of having a fixed array,
>
> Only startup? :-(
>
> I mean, could be really awesome load them when "installed" (and maybe
> provide a per-user directory, like gstreamer plugins). Something like:
>
>       * I found a new module to extract data from XYZ format ("Hey, I've
>         some XYZ files in my home, this is useful!")
>       * I copy it in $HOME/.tracker/extractors/ ("Damn! I've no
>         superuser privileges")
>       * Tracker Applet shows an alert like
>
>         <b>New data extractor available</b>
>         
>         A new extractor for files XYZ. Tracker will
>         scan your data searching for XYZ files and
>         will extract info from them
>         
>                                              ( OK )
>
> BTW this means that, ideally, we could disable some extractors

Not like that, but you're already getting immediate availability from
the plugins, as trackerd is currently launching a new instance of
tracker-extract per-file (it prints the metadata and exits). So the next
time tracker-extract is run, it will already find the new plugin.

Regards,
   Carlos