Alex Mac wrote: > Hi there I'm fairly new to tracker so I'm not sure if this is already > supported or completely incompatible with what tracker does but here > goes: > > One of the things I've been hoping the beagle folk would implement is > support for XMP sidecar files. Anyone who has used photoshop will know > that it can store metadata about a a file in a seperate file in a > format called XMP. Beagle's current filter architecture does not allow > a filter that catches one file (the XMP file) to update the database > info about a different file so extracting data from sidecar files is > not yet a possibility. > > Is this either possible in tracker now or something that might be implemented? > > Example situation just in case that wasn't clear, we have two files: > > foo.blah > .foo.blah.xmp > > In the file .foo.blah.xmp I add some data saying effectively "author=bob" > > when i do a search for all files with an author called bob tracker > will return foo.blah not .foo.blah.xmp > > > My main motivation for this is because I have a script that downloads > imdb info about my movie collection and stores the data in .xmp files > alongside the movies > > Any thoughts, or am I better off waiting for beagle to update it's filter > code?
it would require significant changes to support that so its unlikely in the short term. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
