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



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Hi Adrien,

Am 23.09.2011 08:30, schrieb Adrien Bustany:
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've created a bug report for it:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659934
I would think the best would be first of all to import the address book
and then to check the mail senders/recipients against the contacts.
Having useful & detailed contact data in Tracker would probably also
make it more valuable to the enduser if more applications dealing with
contacts get connected to tracker.
I use another Thunderbird addon to extend the address book features,
maybe it can get also some support. I've described it in the bug report.


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...).

I've created a bug report for it:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659937
I also don't know how calendar items are handled in Thunderbird and if
there is a API. But there are also other addons using the events, so
there should be a way to grab their information. I've listed some addons
in the bug report. -- Just found a document describing how to create
such an addon, I've added a comment to the bug report.

You can feel a bugreport if you want, and I'll report my progress there,
should there be any ;)
I would love to see some progress. :D
I've tested Tracker some time ago on my laptop, but I really couldn't
see any big benefit for me. Beside the fact that indexing was to heavy
for my machine (it was something like 1,6GHz single core, 512+265MB RAM,
normal HDD with full disk encryption and Xubuntu as OS), there were not
enough real world applications to use Tracker. I love the idea of a
semantic desktop, but if no application is using it (I have to admit
that I neither use Evolution, Totem nor Nautilus), it doesn't help... So
having you integrating some applications I daily use to the world of
Tracker is wonderful. :) Another application I would like to see support
for is Chromium, as I recently switched to it.

Thanks for all your work (also to the whole tracker team),
Simon
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