Re: [Tracker] Tracker and Contacts

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

Le Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:53:03 +0200,
Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com> a écrit :

> Hi!
>
>  No, nobody is working on it :) It would be excellent. I took a look
> into libfolks some time ago, and i think it could be done in two
> steps:

Well, I know at least one project using the contact ontology quite
heavily: http://gitorious.org/qtcontacts-tracker/qtcontacts-tracker ;)
So the ontologies are used and maintained. Then of course this is not
GLib code, but it gives a good example of how to use nco to read
contacts (and it would actually make sense for libfolks to follow the
same conventions).

> 1. Make a backend for libfolks that READs the contacts from tracker
> (libfolks will save the results or merging contacts in its own .ini
> file)
>
> 2. Make tracker the main backed of libfolks replacing that .ini file.
> That would be awesome!

It's still not very clear though if storing things like contact
presence in Tracker is the best thing to do... Especially since support
for transient properties in Tracker proved to be not very conclusive :/
So I'd say it probably makes sense to get the presence etc. directly
from telepathy, or wherever it comes from, and do the merging "live"
without passing by Tracker (which is actually one of the usecases of
libfolks if I'm right?).

Cheers

Adrien

>  If you (or anybody out there ;) volunteers to work on this, count
> with our help!
>
> Ivan
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:31 PM, tevaum gmail com <tevaum gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello, all...
> >
> > Is there anyone working on the contacts ontologies and how to use
> > them as a writable backend to libfolks
> > (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Folks )?
> >
> > I think this would be a great step in the contacts integration... If
> > there's anyone interested in this, I can help ;]
> >
> >
> >
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