Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Martyn Russell
On 07/02/14 17:29, Matthias Clasen wrote: I'm a little concerned that we seem to be growing a qt dependency here The dependency is a choice between GdkPixbuf and Qt (XOR) not both. We need *some* backend, and GdkPixbuf is the default fallback if both are available. If Qt is required to

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Martyn Russell mar...@lanedo.com wrote: On 07/02/14 17:29, Matthias Clasen wrote: I'm a little concerned that we seem to be growing a qt dependency here The dependency is a choice between GdkPixbuf and Qt (XOR) not both. We need *some* backend, and

3.12 UX Bugs

2014-02-10 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, A bunch of bugs have been put on the 3.12 whiteboard [1] in anticipation of the upcoming UI freeze. The list contains potential blockers, as well as bits of polish that it would be nice to get done. (Note that it's not comprehensive.) If you're a maintainer, or if you'd like to help us

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Juan A. Suarez Romero
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 08:25 +0100, Jens Georg wrote: I am unfamiliar with the innards of Grilo so, I can't say if it competes or duplicates efforts there. Not really. I'd say Grilo could use it for populating the media art cache using its last.fm or tmbd plugins to make those available

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Martyn Russell
On 10/02/14 14:16, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote: For the case of providing thumbnails, in Grilo we have 3 plugins. - LastFm plugin: basically if fetches the thumbnail URL from lastfm service and gives it to client (the URL itself, it doesn't download anything). - TMDb plugin: similar to above,

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hey, On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 15:16 +0100, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote: snip For the case of providing thumbnails, in Grilo we have 3 plugins. - LastFm plugin: basically if fetches the thumbnail URL from lastfm service and gives it to client (the URL itself, it doesn't download anything). -

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Juan A. Suarez Romero
On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 17:04 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I would leave it up to applications to do the downloading (as they probably already do). The saving could be implemented calling grl_source_store_metadata() on the local-art plugin which would do the right thing. Want me to file bugs

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Martyn Russell
On 10/02/14 16:04, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hey, Hi, - Local-art plugin: the same, but this time it searches for the thumbnail in the local disk. It implements (or tries to) the MediaArtStorageSpec to fetch them. We discussed with Music team that it would be a good idea to have a separated

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote: But we could have the inverse relation too: libmediaart could use Grilo to fetch the thumbnails from webservices, and then download it and stores in local disk following the spec. Grilo would only provide the URL (using,

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 16:07 +, Martyn Russell wrote: On 10/02/14 16:04, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hey, Hi, - Local-art plugin: the same, but this time it searches for the thumbnail in the local disk. It implements (or tries to) the MediaArtStorageSpec to fetch them. We discussed with

Heads up: Tracker API version bump

2014-02-10 Thread Martyn Russell
Hello all, For some time now, we've been bumping the API version in Tracker each stable release (i.e. every 6 months or so). This goes back to a time when the API changes between 0.6 and 0.8 were rather large. These days things are more stable and we've been having a few complaints from

Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Juan A. Suarez Romero
On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 16:07 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote: But we could have the inverse relation too: libmediaart could use Grilo to fetch the thumbnails from webservices, and then download it and stores in local disk

Re: Heads up: Tracker API version bump

2014-02-10 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Martyn Russell mar...@lanedo.com wrote: After checking with the release team some weeks back that it is prudent make this change for this cycle, I've updated Tracker to be API version 1.0. Nice! Just a heads up, some (probably minor) fallout:

Creating source files

2014-02-10 Thread fr33domlover
Hello, I'm writing some helper scripts to make working with source code repositories a bit easier and have a uniform interface. For example, assume a program called srchelper which allows you to 'cd' into a repository after a git clone, and create a new empty GObject/C++/Python class like this:

Re: Heads up: Tracker API version bump

2014-02-10 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Martyn Russell mar...@lanedo.com wrote: After checking with the release team some weeks back that it is prudent make this change for this cycle, I've updated Tracker to be API version