Re: [Tracker] Tracker / Tomboy / Maemo

[Cornelius Hald <hald icandy de>]

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:18 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 13:27 +0800, Xin Lai wrote:
> >   I think you need to add your module name "TomboyNotes" in
> > tracker_service_types which is defined in src/libtracker/tracker.c.
> >
> >   Because the main function of tracker-search which resides in
> > src/tracker-utils/tracker-search.c calls  tracker_service_name_to_type
> > which is also defined in src/libtracker/tracker.c,to check the service
> > name users entered. tracker_service_name_to_type will compare every
> > service name in tracker_service_types with that user entered.But now
> > your service name is not included in that array. So, the result
> > "Service not recognized, searching in other files...".
> >
> > Hope that will help you. :-) 
> It certainly helps! Thank you! But unfortunately it would mean that the
> available services are hard coded into tracker?! Is this the case? If
> yes it would mean I cannot ship my application with a tracker indexer
> without replacing the complete tracker install. Or do I just have to
> reuse one of the existing services, e.g. "Documents" and it will work
> fine?
> Sorry for all those questions, but I'm a bit confused now. I was
> assuming that it's part of trackers design to be extendable.

Ok, let me try to rephrase my question :)
Is it possible to write indexer modules which I can ship/package
independently from tracker? If yes, how?

It would be very nice if someone could explain that to me.

Thanks!
Conny