Hi,
I'm here resending the patches that were probably ignored, and this
time as one file.
There's improvement to the TODO file, with some stuff copied from the
SOC proposals from last year. and there's a one-liner that supposedly
fixes a typo in "data/modules/files.module". There's also a README and
NEWS file update.
--
my place on the web:
floss-and-misc.blogspot.com
Index: README
===================================================================
--- README (revision 2285)
+++ README (working copy)
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ Table of Contents
5.1 Notes on Solaris
5.2 Compile Options
6 Running Tracker
- 6.1 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
+ 6.1 Usage
+ 6.2 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
+ 6.3 Tracker files
7 Tracker & Nautilus Search
8 Tracker & Deskbar applet
9 Tracker tools
@@ -117,6 +119,8 @@ Table of Contents
* Provides option to disable indexing when running on battery.
+ * Provides option to index removable devices.
+
* Implements the freedesktop specification for metadata
(http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec).
@@ -177,8 +181,13 @@ Table of Contents
* unac (accent stripper)
* exempi
* libxml2
+ * libxml2 (for extracting html/xml content)
+ * hal 0.5 (for detection of removable devices, mounted
+ directories, as well as whether the computer is running on
+ battery)
+
4.3 For building Tracker's Deskbar-applet backend
* python-dev 2.3
@@ -278,7 +287,12 @@ Table of Contents
--enable-external-qdbm : use system qdbm instead of one included
in Tracker
- --disable-hal : disables HAL support for ac-power detection
+ --disable-hal : disables HAL support, which is for detecting
+ whether the computer is running on battery (for EG, determining
+ whether to run the indexer in such a case), whether a removable
+ device has been attached (for EG, determining whether to index
+ its contents), and for detecting mounted directories (for EG,
+ determining whether to index such)
--disable-trackerapplet : disables Tracker's notification applet
@@ -286,8 +300,10 @@ Table of Contents
6 Running Tracker
- To run Tracker, you need to manually start the Tracker daemon,
- trackerd. By default trackerd will index your entire home
+6.1 Usage
+
+ To run Tracker, you need to manually start the Tracker daemon,
+ trackerd. By default trackerd will index your entire home
directory.
You can also pass a directory root to be indexed as a command
@@ -337,9 +353,9 @@ Table of Contents
"WatchDirectoryRoots=directory1;directory2;directory3""
- An additional option is the "--reindex" option which indexes
- user data from scratch, removing the need to remove Tracker
- database manually.
+ An additional option is "--reindex" which indexes user data from
+ scratch, removing the need to delete Tracker's database manually.
+ Keywords and metadata definitions are preserved however.
On the first run, Tracker will automatically create a new
database and start populating it with metadata by browsing
@@ -355,7 +371,7 @@ Table of Contents
tracker-search SEARCHTERM)
-6.1 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
+6.2 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
When watching large numbers of folders, its ppossible to exceed
the default number of inotify watches. In order to get real time
@@ -370,7 +386,24 @@ Table of Contents
"sudo /etc/init.d/procps restart"
+6.3 Tracker files
+ Here is some of the files that Tracker uses during its operation,
+ apart from "~/.config/tracker" which is stated above, in Sec 6.1:
+
+ * "~/.local/share/tracker" is used for non-expendable content,
+ like keywords and metadata definitions.
+
+ * "~/.cache/tracker" is used for the expendable indexes and
+ expendable metadata that can be rebuilt if deleted (this is the
+ purpose of the ".cache" - its more a permanent tmp directory than
+ sys tmp but can be deleted if more disk space is needed).
+
+ * The system tmp ("/var/tmp" and "/tmp") is used for short-lived
+ session data.
+
+
+
7 Tracker & Nautilus Search
Once you have installed Tracker and have some indexed contents,
Index: TODO
===================================================================
--- TODO (revision 2285)
+++ TODO (working copy)
@@ -1,11 +1,96 @@
-* support for ignoring diacritics in search (version 0.6.1)
-* support for Thunderbird 2 after it's released
-* .desktop file indexing
-* chat logs
+general:
+* XESAM integration
+* indexer backend independence (not just rely on SQLite)
+* automatic language detection
+* DocBook indexing
+* manpage indexing
+
+application support:
+* Balsa mboxes
+* Brasero integration
+* Epiphany integration (bookmarks and history)
* Rhythmbox integration
* Tomboy notes indexing
-* Epiphany integration
-* Brasero integration
-* manpage indexing
-* DocBook indexing
+
+search:
* search filtering (EG search within specific folders)
+* search results that update in real time
+* search within archives
+* "exact phrase" search
+* wildcard search
+
+needing GLib 2.16:
+* addition of unit tests
+* (maybe) drop in-lined xdgmime
+* (maybe) drop in-house file monitoring
+
+
+the following were copied from Tracker SoC project ideas:
+
+1. HAL integration into Tracker
+
+ * We need to be able to handle files in removable media
+ * Database already includes support for removable volumes and all file
+ services have an enable flag which can be used for this
+ * Needs to be able to auto-index files when a usb drive is plugged in
+ * Needs to be able to update URIs for all affected files when a usb drive
+ is mounted (paths of a previously indexed mount might be different when
+ remounted)
+ * Need to be able to hide files and exclude from search when a usb drive is
+ unmounted
+
+2. Linux kernel watchless file notification system for Tracker
+
+ * currently we are using inotify which is not optimal for watching entire
+ trees. (OSX has kernel file notifications by contrast)
+ * Implement a loadable module for the kernel which allows all file activity
+ to be passed to userspace Tracker
+ * Ideally should make use of netlink
+ * Allow tracker to connect and receive these events.
+ * implement file notification handler for it in tracker
+
+3. Extend the GTK Tracker Widget Library
+
+ * Include a generic search result widget
+ o A reusable widget which can show results from tracker
+ o widget should allow paging of results via scrolling instead of
+ buttons (downloading of all search results in one go is not allowed
+ so it needs to be smart)
+ o Widget should be able to seamlessly switch into multiple views
+ (icon, list, compact list)
+ o Add special view when all results are exclusively Music based.
+ View should show a sorted list of music metadata album, artist etc
+ (similar to rhythmbox music view)
+ o widget should offer basic file management including drag and drop,
+ deletes, renames via popup menu
+ o widget should allow watermarking of background (use cairo) with a
+ definable pixmap
+ o widget should allow an optional popup preview when moused over for
+ a few seconds (kind of like knoqueror does)
+ * RDF Query widget
+ o mockup: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=80132&action=view
+ o The Rhythmbox automatic playlist may also serve useful as inspiration
+
+4. Better KDE Integration
+
+ * Improve basic GUI with corresponding features from the GNOME GUI
+ (tags, metadata tile, thumbnails)
+ * add ability to index KContacts and KNotes
+
+5. Add XMP Sidecar and IPTC support to tracker
+
+ * implement an XMP compatible parser (using glib xml parser)
+ * backup all user defined metadata into XMP sidecar format
+ * allow indexing of sidecar files when indexing a file so users can edit
+ these files to add metadata
+ * extract IPTC metadata embedded into images
+ * see GNOME bug #401664
+
+6. Networked Tracker
+
+ * Use avahi/dbus to locate remote tracker servers. Could make use of ssh
+ or as suggested use gabriel.
+ * Api would need to be added to add support for retrieving list of servers
+ * TST would need to be changed to list all available servers to use and
+ allow user to pick one
+ * If using DBus over ssh then could use seahorse for ssh key pairing
Index: data/modules/files.module
===================================================================
--- data/modules/files.module (revision 2285)
+++ data/modules/files.module (working copy)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ RecurseDirectories=
[Ignored]
Directories=po;CVS;.svn;.git
-Files=*~*;*.o;*.la;*.lo;*.loT;*.in;*.csproj;*.m4;*.rej;*.gmo;*.orig;*.pc;*.omf;*.aux;*.tmp;*.po;*.vmdk;*.vm*;*.nvram;*.part;autom4te;conftest;confstat;Makefile;SCCS;litmain.sh;libtool;config.status;confdefs.h;
+Files=*~;*.o;*.la;*.lo;*.loT;*.in;*.csproj;*.m4;*.rej;*.gmo;*.orig;*.pc;*.omf;*.aux;*.tmp;*.po;*.vmdk;*.vm*;*.nvram;*.part;autom4te;conftest;confstat;Makefile;SCCS;litmain.sh;libtool;config.status;confdefs.h;
[Index]
Service=
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
--- NEWS (revision 2285)
+++ NEWS (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+Tracker 0.6.90
+============= (whenever)
+
+ Major refactoring work
+ * cleaner code, some things moved to libaries.
+ * Refactored DBus interface: Now with introspection! (The method names don't
+ change, but the objects do, so the client applications must be updated)
+ * New DB access code (libtracker-db library).
+ * New binary, tracker-indexer, created so to separate indexing functionality
+ away from the daemon.
+
+ Miscellaneous
+ * Added support for indexing removable media.
+ * Added support for the mobile email client, Modest. This adds to Evolution,
+ Thunderbird, and KMail, among supported clients.
+ * Added support for OR search operations.
+ * Initial xesam support.
+ * Addition of unit tests.
+ * In-house file monitoring dropped in favour of GLib's GIO.
+ * New functionality to estimate remaining indexing time period.
+
+
Tracker 0.6.6
============= (03 Mar 2008)
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