Re: [Tracker] unity dash lens

[Karl Relton <karllinuxtest relton ntlworld com>]

On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 15:34 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 01/10/12 14:27, BjÃrn Johansson wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hello,
>
> > has anyone thought of writing a unity dash lens for tracker?
>
> Unity, what's that? :)
>
> On a serious note, there are few resources currently on the project to 
> maintain it, writing new extensions for every man and his dog out there 
> is less likely to happen by the core team - but we would welcome and 
> development efforts from people that have an interest out there! :)

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/646724/comments/71
and https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/646724/comments/75

As you will see, code is out there though it has fallen behind updates
to Unity's api. However with a bit of hacking compilation is possible.

The problem is that the Ubuntu folks don't see Tracker as a first class
citizen (it is in 'universe' rather than 'main') and so there is little
impetus for a developer to sort it out. At the tracker end, the same
resource problem applies as Martyn says.

So it needs someone in the middle to invest time and be prepared to
maintain it.

Karl