Re: [Tracker] trackerbird fixes

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 06/02/14 10:16, Michael Lipp wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Michael,

> after being annoyed about the erroneous trackerbird for quite some time,
> I finally decided to dig myself into it. I couldn't find any
> corresponding bugs in the bug database. I think, people have given up on
> this component because it seemed to be unmaintained and thunderbird has
> its own search facility (but I like the combined search). Or the bugs
> never reached "upstream" (you find some in the Suse/Ubuntu/Fedora bug
> trackers).

First, thank you for picking this up!

> I fixed the following problems:
>
> 1) Trackerbird doesn't work at all with TB24 due to interface changes.

Yea, I really hate all the number changes making it impossible to keep 
the plugins working in most cases too.

> 2) Thunderbirds sometimes "freezes" when trackerbird is enabled (you
> find that in a lot of forums and bug trackers, e.g.
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930492)

I see.

> 3) Improved output via dump statements and also added some reporting to
> the thunderbird console in case you haven't enabled dump. This is only
> done for some "hot spots", though.

Great! :)
We love debug.

> If you're interested in merging the changes, you can pull them from
> https://github.com/mnlipp/tracker.

We certainly are.

> What I don't like yet is that mails are found when searching as Mails
> but also as "Douments" with "Loading..." being displayed. Going to look
> into this as well, but I'll have to better understand the data model first.

Yea, there is a bug about this:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696099

I've been meaning to fix it, but I didn't get around to it.
It should be fairly easy to do, just don't create emails as nfo:Document.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder & Director @ Lanedo GmbH.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/martynrussell