On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:17 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > > > > the desktop/ini file will contain fields for : > > > > directories to watch > > recursive directories to watch > > ignore directories regex > > files to index regex > > files to ignore regex > > index executable > > index module name > > file mime types > > service name > > > > we may also need a user config file for each module/executable which the > > index content will use > > > > enabled > > mod specific settings > > Hmm, as we speak we are writing a GKeyFile type approach (similar to a > .desktop file) outside of the .desktop file for modules. >
great! > >From what you have listed there are are you talking about extending the > desktop file format for Tracker? > > Where you have "regex" there, do you mean using the GPatternSpec API > which we currently do or using a real regex? (Possibly the using GRegex) > GPatternSpec would be ok for now. I dont know if there will be a requirement for regex in the future > My feeling at this point (so we can get on) is to just write the code to > get this information from another place (we have in mind > $prefix/share/tracker/modules) and use that for now, then perhaps we can > move over to .desktop files (with the GKeyFile the move should be faily > quick given the API won't change we will just point the code at > different files). thats fine jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
