Re: [Tracker] Tracker 0.10 and gnome-shell

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 10/02/11 10:01, John Stowers wrote:
> > Well, at least I think it makes sense to use Tracker to search for
> > applications and files (or recently used files). There are a lot of
> > other applications for Tracker, like searching contacts, emails, etc.
> >
> > I started looking into this this week, but didn't see any clear API or
> > way to do this yet - am I looking in the wrong place? Can you point us
> > in the right direction? Owen did say there is an extension type API we
> > can use.
>
> I spent some time this afternoon looking into it. You will need to start
> with the first part [1] of the Zeitgeist patch [2] because this adds the
> infrastructure to add search results async.

I see, I got the impression from the Zeitgeist patch (which I had seen 
before) that gnome-shell needed patching. Seems this is still the case. 
Are there plans to make this area a bit more extensible or is it 
expected to be closed to some extent?

> Then it looks to be a matter of writing a wrapper around either the
> tracker DBus API, or using the tracker-sparql library from
> introspection.

Yes.

> Implement DocSearchProvider, and add yourself to the overview [3]. I'm
> not sure if adding to the overview can be done from an extension yet.

Thanks for the information. It's a start.

> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=179842
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640659
> [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=179844

Anyone out there have the time to implement this before the core team 
does? Right now, we're quite busy with releases and bug fixing.

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Regards,
Martyn