Re: [Tracker] Changes in libtracker (dynamic service type validation)

["Marko Anastasov" <marko anastasov gmail com>]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  A lot of tools in tracker-utils use the hardcoded ServiceType enum in
> libtracker (through tracker_type_to_service_name and
> tracker_service_name_to_type). It means when you add a new category in
> the daemon it is invisible for the tools unless you recompile
> everything.
>
>  To fix it, my plan is to retrieve those service types from the daemon
> (getting rid of the ServiceType enum).  To do this, i need to modify
> the libtracker API. Is there any problem with this? Is libtracker used
> by external applications or only by our tools?

Yes, libtracker and signals defined in the D-Bus API are used in the
core of Paperbox. My understanding was that this API will be kept
intact and eventually made obsolete by the XESAM API?

    Marko