Re: [Tracker] Extending indexed file types

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi Bjorn,

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Björn Johansson
<bjorn_johansson bio uminho pt> wrote:
> Hi, I just installed the latest Tracker from the ubuntu standard repo.
>
> Seems to be working fine but my Jupyter notebooks does not seem to be
> indexed.
> Is this expected?

Yes, Tracker has no specific knowledge of these files.

> Jupyter notebooks are a kind of JSON text files containing code and text
> (http://jupyter.org/).
>
> Can I extend Tracker to also index these files? They are popular in the
> scientific computing community.

We do accept patches :). As Debarshi pointed out, there's quite a few
examples in src/tracker-extract in the tracker git tree.

But those Tracker extract modules rely on specific enough mimetypes,
could be worth checking first whether shared-mime-info knows about
jupyter specifically, eg. doing:

gio info $FILE |grep content-type

Cheers,
  Carlos