Re: [Tracker] Photo management application

[Debarshi Ray <debarshi ray gmail com>]

I spent the last weekend trying to implement the Nautilus extension. I
found that Tracker already has a similar thing in its Git tree at
python/nautilus/. However I found two problems with it. First, it does
not use the latest DBus API, which is not so much of a problem.
Secondly, it uses Python and Nautilus' Python bindings [1] for its
implementation. It seems that there is some problem with the bindings.
None of the packages which include a Nautilus extension written in
Python on my Fedora 11 x86_64 system (eg., postr) have their plugin UI
visible from Nautilus. I tried putting some of the sample extensions
provided with nautilus-python in the relevant directories to no avail.
I noticed that the bindings were last released a year ago, so I am not
sure what is wrong here? I have put in a mail on the
fedora-desktop-list, but there has been no reply yet.

In the meanwhile, I am writing something similar in C. Good
oppurtunity to improve my GObject skills, etc. If there is actually no
problem with nautilus-python and it is just me being silly or a local
problem, then I can always update the existing implementation in
Python.

Happy hacking,
Debarshi

[1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nautilus-python/0.5/