Hi!,
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:40 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 28/01/2008 alle 12.20 +0100, Carlos Garnacho ha scritto:
> > Hi!,
> >
> > In bug #509601 there's a patch attached to make extractors GModules, so
> > tracker-extractor loads them at startup instead of having a fixed array,
>
> Only startup? :-(
>
> I mean, could be really awesome load them when "installed" (and maybe
> provide a per-user directory, like gstreamer plugins). Something like:
>
> * I found a new module to extract data from XYZ format ("Hey, I've
> some XYZ files in my home, this is useful!")
> * I copy it in $HOME/.tracker/extractors/ ("Damn! I've no
> superuser privileges")
> * Tracker Applet shows an alert like
>
> <b>New data extractor available</b>
>
> A new extractor for files XYZ. Tracker will
> scan your data searching for XYZ files and
> will extract info from them
>
> ( OK )
>
> BTW this means that, ideally, we could disable some extractors
Not like that, but you're already getting immediate availability from
the plugins, as trackerd is currently launching a new instance of
tracker-extract per-file (it prints the metadata and exits). So the next
time tracker-extract is run, it will already find the new plugin.
Regards,
Carlos
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