Re: [Tracker] Support for contacts and calendar events in Thunderbird

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

On 22.09.2011 23:45, Simon Harhues wrote:
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> Hi,
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> recently support for Thunderbird was added in Tracker. As far as I
> understood now emails out of Thunderbird get indexed by tracker.
>
> (I think this is a great step to increase the benefit of Tracker on
> desktop computers. Except Zeitgeist, Nautilus and Evolution I don't 
> know
> any other applications so far using Tracker.)
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> Is there also support for indexing Thunderbirds contacts and
> Thunderbirds calendar events (via lightning addon)?
>
> If not, shall I fill a bug report?
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
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Hello Simon,

Thunderbird contacts are currently not indexed in Tracker, although
email senders/recipients are saved as nco:Contact instances. That could
be improved in two ways:
1. Better parsing of email addresses: currently the parser is super
basic, and fails on things like "undisclosed-recipients;". I need to
write a better one.
2. Import of address book in Tracker: I would need to hook the proper
APIs of Thunderbird for that. Nothing too hard I guess, just something
which has to be done.

I have no idea how calendar events are handled in TB (and if lightning
has any API, actually it does not work very well with my current 
version
of TB...).

You can feel a bugreport if you want, and I'll report my progress 
there,
should there be any ;)

Cheers

Adrien