Re: [Tracker] tracker 0.9.17 evolution miner

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 13:40 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 31/08/10 12:21, Matthias Thon wrote:
> > Hi Martyn,
>
> Hi,
>
> > the plugin "Tracker" is checked inside evolution. I have looked into
> > dbus communication with dbus-monitor. I can see messages between the
> > evolution plugin and tracker-miner-fs. But the status of "email" in the
> > tracker-status-icon stay's in state "initializing... 0%". Tracker-search
> > shows no emails.
>
> The status can not be used very usefully for the evolution plugin. IIRC 
> it is not updated because there is no way to know the total work to do 
> (and therefore the work done). Philip, can you confirm this, this is 
> just what I remember?

Not impossible but hard. And work on the Evolution plugin unfortunately
doesn't have a high priority for me.

I'm kinda hoping it to be picked up by somebody with more time than me.

So whoever wants to improve this chunk of code: don't be waiting for me,
just go ahead.

> > In the dbus-communication i see some error-messages like:
> >
> >
> > method return sender=:1.99 ->  dest=:1.76 reply_serial=64
> > method return sender=:1.99 ->  dest=:1.76 reply_serial=65
> >     variant       string "Inbox"
> > method return sender=:1.99 ->  dest=:1.76 reply_serial=66
> >     variant       string "2010-08-31T05:19:48.688508Z"
> > error sender=:1.99 ->  dest=:1.76
> > error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.Libindicate.Code15
> > reply_serial=67
> >     string "Indicator 1 has no property named 'icon'"
> > method return sender=:1.99 ->  dest=:1.76 reply_serial=68
> >     variant       string "0"
> >
> > I'am working with evolution 2.28.3. Must i have a newer version of
> > evolution?
>
> That's the version I am using here too. You shouldn't need a newer 
> version of Evolution. We have fixed several bugs around the build 
> situation for the plugin recently (related to building with different 
> versions of libcamel IIRC), but generally, building the plugin and 
> installing it to the right place should be sufficient (and done 
> automatically).
>
> I should add, I tested recently 0.8.16 with Evolution 2.28.3. I haven't 
> recently tried 0.9.x. But not much has changed in this area and patches 
> are generally applied to both stable/unstable branches in this area.
>
> If you use:
>
>    tail -f ~/.local/share/tracker/tracker-store.log
>
> Do you see emails being added?

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Philip Van Hoof
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