Hi, On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:07 +0200, Nils Erik Svangård wrote: > I think I get it. If the fileformat for the licq logs is some strange > format I probably have to write a filter for that. And then make a > backen who uses that filter?
Essentially, yes. If I were you, though, I would start with the backend, since that's where the data will be coming from to start. I don't know anything about licq, so I'll make up a hypothetical situation. Let's say that licq stores its logs in ~/.licq/logs/<icq number> and that there is a icq number to nickname mapping in ~/.licq/buddy.xml. Your backend would look in ~/.licq/logs for new/updated logs, and then look in ~/.licq/buddy.xml to map them to a human readable name. You then create an Indexable object and set certain properties on it, including the nickname of the buddy who sent it to you. >From there, the filter would take over and parse the logs for more general information if it's there. Now, if the licq logs are very specialized (ie, not plain text, but not HTML or some other standard format) you can skip the filtering process altogether and just do all of the work in the backend. Joe _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
