Re: [Tracker] Tracker / Tomboy / Maemo

[Cornelius Hald <hald icandy de>]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 17:29 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > * Is there already an indexer for Tomboy or GNote[4]? If yes, I think I
> > could reuse it because the XML file format is exactly the same. While
> > searching I only found this message (including some code):
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/tracker-list gnome org/msg00954.html
>
> In master you should probably just make an ontology for notes and store
> it directly into Tracker's storage, instead of storing XML files
> yourself.
>
> Because all data must be indexed (for fulltext searching) anyway, why
> not simply use Tracker as sole storage then?

Thank you for this super fast answer! Somehow I expected you'd say
that ;) and I'm sure it's probably the right thing to do. The problem
is, that (for now) I cannot completely remove the XML backend, because
the sync solution is not finished yet. So many users just copy their
Tomboy files to the Maemo tablets using e.g. rsync.
As an intermediate step I think I should write an indexer for the xml
format. I just wanted to make sure that no one else already did. It
shouldn't be difficult to do. All the xml parsing code already exists
anyways.

> > * Under /usr/lib/tracker I see extract-modules and indexer-modules. Is
> > there a document which explains the difference or could you please
> > explain shortly?
> >
> > * If I understood correctly I could store my notes directly inside
> > Tracker without saving them as XML in the file system. What advantages
> > would that bring (except not having to read/write XML)?
>
> The fact that you don't need to write storage code yourself plus that
> you get Tracker's SPARQL query capabilities, plus that all applications
> can now start using the data that you've put in Tracker, as context for
> their spectacular use-cases.

That sounds promising and should be doable soon. At the moment there is
work going on to get storage backend plug-ins into Conboy. Once that's
done I'll try to write a plug-in that directly saves to Tracker.

Thanks for the help!
Conny