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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
Meta Tracker - A Desktop Search Tool
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Jerry Tan
1.3 Date of This Document:
12 June, 2008
4. Technical Description
1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
Meta Tracker
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Jerry Tan
Sponsor: Irene Huang
1.3. Date of This Document:
05/23/2008
1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
1.4.1. The PAC or CPT you expect to review your project:
Solaris PAC
1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
LSARC
1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:
Robert O'Dea
1.4.4. The name of your business unit:
New Solaris Group
1.5. Email Aliases:
1.5.1. Responsible Manager: harry.lu at sun.com
1.5.2. Responsible Engineer: jerry.tan at sun.com
1.5.3. Interest List: halton.huo at sun.com
ava.zhang at sun.com
2. Project Summary
2.1. Project Description:
Meta Tracker (or Tracker for short) is a desktop search tool, designed to
extract
information and meta data about your personal data,
so that it can be searched and located easily and quickly.
By using Meta Tracker, you no longer have to remember where you
have left your files. To locate a file you only need to remember
something about it, such as a word in the document or the
artist of the song. This is because as well as searching
for files in the traditional way, by name and location,
Meta Tracker searches files' contents and meta data.
3. Business Summary
Ubuntu bundles tracker as its default desktop search tool,
and Suse bundles beagle as its default desktop search tool.
Meta Tracker needs to be integrated into Solaris also since
there is not desktop search tool.
4. Technical Description:
4.1. Details:
Meta Tracker's key features includes:
* Extracts file contents as plain text and indexes them.
* Extracts Meta data from file also, for example,
Artist/Title from one mp3 file
* Responds in real time to file system changes,
automatically keeping its meta data database up to date.
* Can provide thumb nailing on the fly if a thumbnail
does not currently exist.
Tracker supported data sources:
* Text Files
* Documents (pdf,open office, ms office)
* Applications (for desktop menu entry)
* Conversations (pidgin)
* Emails (thunderbird and evolution)
* Development Files (C, C++, Java)
* Web Pages
* Music (all gstreamer supported media type)
* Video (all gstreamer supported media type)
* Images (png,jpeg,tiff,gif)
Tracker has several components:
* Indexer, a lightweight daemon that extracts information from files
(trackerd).
* Tracker Search Tool, a GUI to search for indexed data.
* Command line tools for searching, querying the daemon status, and tagging.
* libtracker, a C wrapper around the DBus API.
* Tracker Preference Tool, to help user to set preference.
* Tracker applet.
Tracker has its own filter to parse some type of file,
Also it depends on external applications to convert files
into plain text and then index it .
* HTML it depends on w3m, a text browser to dump web page into plain text.
* PDF it depends on pdftotext (a cmd tool provided by evince)
* XML it depends on xsltproc tool
* openoffice it has its own o3totext
Tracker daemon will be started with gnome-session.
User can run gnome-session-properties to enable/disable it.
When it's runing, it will register dbus service interface
"org.freedesktop.Tracker", tracker search tool will communicate
with daemon by using of D-BUS.
4.2. Interfaces:
Exported Interfaces
Interface Classification
Comments
--------------- ---------------
-----------------------
/usr/bin/trackerd Volatile
a daemon to index data and handle request
/usr/bin/tracker-files Volatile
a utility to list indexed data
/usr/bin/tracker-extract Volatile
a utility to extract meta data from file
/usr/bin/tracker-search Volatile
enable user to search in terminal
/usr/bin/tracker-status Volatile
a utility to show trackerd's busy/idle status
/usr/bin/tracker-stats Volatile
list indexed data number categorized by type
/usr/bin/tracker-tag Volatile
a utility to add tag/list tag/del tag
/usr/bin/tracker-search-tool Volatile
a GUI application to search
/usr/bin/tracker-preference-tool Volatile
a GUI application to set user preference
/usr/bin/tracker-thumbnail Volatile
a utility to create thumbnail for image
/usr/bin/o3totxt Volatile
convert openoffice file into plain txt
/usr/lib/libtracker-gtk.so.0 Volatile
library used by tracker-search-tool
/usr/lib/libtrackerclient.so.0 Volatile
a C wrapper around the DBus API
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/ Volatile
a python plugin for deskbar to use tracker
modules-2.20-compatible/tracker-module.py
/usr/lib/tracker/filters/ Volatile
some scripts to convert data into plain text
/usr/lib/tracker/thumbnailers/ Volatile
some scripts to generate thumbnail
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/tracker.service Volatile
to register dbus service
/usr/share/tracker Volatile
directory to store some icon file,sql scripts
/usr/lib/firefox/extensions/ Volatile
firefox extension for tracker
{fda00e13-8c62-4f63-9d19-d168115b11ca}
/usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/ Volatile
thunderbird extension for tracker
{b656ef18-fd76-45e6-95cc-8043f26361e7}
SUNWdesktop-search Uncommitted
tracker package
SUNWdesktop-search-devel Uncommitted
tracker libraries
SUNWdesktop-search-firefox Uncommitted
firefox extension for firefox
SUNWdesktop-search-thunderbird Uncommitted
thunderbird extension for thunderbird
Imported Interfaces
Interface Classification Comments
--------------- --------------- -----------------------
SQLite Committed PSARC/2008/120
GTK+ Committed LSARC/2008/207
GLib Committed LSARC/2008/207
D-Bus Volatile LSARC 2006/368
gamin Volatile LSARC/2007/398
gmime Volatile LSARC/2008/067
w3m Volatile LSARC/2008/346
gstreamer Uncommitted LSARC/2008/207
evince Volatile LSARC/2008/207
libpng Uncommitted LSARC/2003/568
xslt Volatile PSARC/2006/291
libgsf Volatile LSARC/2008/345
ImageMagick Uncommitted LSARC/2007/316
4.3. Doc Impact:
Man page is needed.
4.4. Packaging & Delivery:
SUNWdesktop-search (base package) - application i.e binary,
libraries
SUNWdesktop-search-devel (library) - libraries for tracker
SUNWdesktop-search-firefox - extension for
firefox
SUNWdesktop-search-thunderbird - extension for
thunderbird
4.5. Dependencies:
tracker depends on GTK+, sqlite, dbus, and libpng.
4.6. L10N Impact:
The Desktop team and the G11N are working together to evaluation and
provide I18N/L10N support
4.7 Security Impact:
None.
5. Reference Documents:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
Desktop
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
