My initial plan was to make a plugin, but now I think it is not
possible to transform this in a "pure" plugin for Zim because of the
integration with shell. There are some special descriptors that need to
be installed in the system. Nevertheless, I think it is possible to
export the Dbus service directly from a Zim plugin and access the
search feature from inside. It should have better performance that
spawning a process and better integration (specially for the "show more
results" that currently does not work). It still would require the DBus
activatable mechanics, I guess.
Em Dom, Set 28, 2014 em 5:04 , Dmitrij Lisov <[email protected]>
escreveu:
Hey Davi!
That's a great idea, since I'm using the Gnome Shell for searching
and opening files a lot!
Do you plan to release it as a plugin, so that it could be published
here? Additionally, the installation process would be simpler.
Thanks!
D
2014-09-28 6:42 GMT+02:00 Davi <[email protected]>:
Hello people!
My first message in the list. I've actually just "joined the team",
according to LP anyway.
I have been using Zim for while and it is an amazing productivity
tool! I also use GNOME Shell with its great search capabilities. I
thought it would be great to be able to search through my Zim
notebook directly from Shell search, so I went ahead and developed a
very simple search provider [2]. It seems to be working, but I'm
very new to almost everything involved: although I have some
programming background, I'm new to python, DBUS, GNOME Shell, Zim
itself and even Git. I basically did a patchwork of a few tutorials
I found about that stuff, so certainly there is much room for
improvement.
The workings are very simple: zimsearch.py is a python 3 script that
implements a gtk3 application [3]. This app is DBus-activatable [4]
and does nothing except creating a DBus object that impements the
GNOME Shell search provider API. The service implementation
basically spawns "zim --search" with the search terms and parses the
stdout. There is some logic to identify the default notebook from
notebooks.zim and to override the searched notebook from a special
search term (notebook:...). Apart from the script, there are some
descriptors to install the provider in DBus and GNOME Shell.
If you would like to try it, I've make a script that installs the
files to their directories. It Works For Me, but no guarantees
otherwise. Please contact me if you are having trouble with the
installation.
Thak you for your time. I would certainly appreciate any feedback!
Best regards,
Davi.
[1] Soure code: https://github.com/dsboger/zimsearch
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/SearchProvider
[3] https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/GtkApplication
[4] https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/DBusApplicationLaunching
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