[maemo-developers] Tracker in Fremantle

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Hi Daniel,

> it could be a good idea to use the tracker for your application.
> Would be a nice use-case, I guess. If you want, perhaps I could help
> you a bit within the implementation.

thanks for your reply and your offer to help :) I think the 
implementation is straight forward and shouldn´t really be difficult, in 
fact most of the code is already there :) But still there are problems.

I´ll quickly outline what I´m trying to do:

I want to write an indexer module for Tracker which can read the Tomboy 
xml file format. This format is also used by my application. Those xml 
files are quiet simple. They contain several (for Tracker) interesting 
things like:
- Title
- Content
- Tags
- Last change date

So the indexer module should watch the directory where those notes are 
stored and whenever something changes, the indexer should parse those 
files and put the information into tracker.

Then I hope a user can open some kind of Fremantle-Universal-Search 
window and type for example "Beatles". As a result the user might get a 
list of some songs performed by The Beatles plus two note where he was 
using the world "Beatles" in the title, content or as a tag.

Pretty standard so far :)

Now I´m basically having two problems right now:
1) I cannot find a packages which ships the required headers [1]
2) The categories like "Emails", "Images", "Videos" are hard coded into 
libtracker but I would like to have a category "Notes". Now, this is 
only a problem if the Fremantle search tool will use libtracker. If it 
instead uses only D-Bus to access tracker it is not a problem [2].
So if you could give me any information about this it would be great, 
because then I would know whether or not I should open a bug/enhancement 
request for the new category like discussed on the tracker mailing list [2].

> And yes the bugzilla is the right place. There is already a bug from
> you, so I guess I'm too late ;)
Thanks for the clarification! I opened this bug, but as no one answered 
I thought it might be the wrong place. Now Andree answered and I´ll try 
to give him the needed information.


Well, long post, but I hope you see what I´m trying to achieve. So if 
you have any further advice, please let me know :) Especially 
information whether or not the Fremantle search tool is using libtracker 
would great!


Thanks!
Conny

[1] https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4743
[2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2009-June/msg00007.html