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

[Rainer M Krug <r m krug gmail com>]

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On 23/09/11 15:00, Simon Harhues wrote:
> 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.

While we are at it: although thunderbird has it's own indexing, it
would be great to have a plugin in thunderbird which enables search
for emails from within thunderbird using tracker. That would make it
unnecessary to do the indexing in thunderbird and even open the
possibility to open and find emails in thunderbird which are not in
thunderbird (when e.g. maildir and mbox are indexed y tracker).

Cheers,

Rainer

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