I re-implemented the DBus service in a Zim plugin to have access to the internals. However, the descriptors for the DBus service and search provider still need to be installed, so it is not a simple python source file.
If you installed the previous version, please uninstall it before installing the new one. For Arch Linux users, I created an AUR package zimsearch-git. User visible changes: - Asking for more results works as supposed. - It is also faster to show the results. Planned improvements: - Asynchronous implementation for the DBus service methods (should improve responsiveness when searching large notebooks). 2014-09-28 9:57 GMT-03:00 Davi <dsbo...@gmail.com>: > 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 <dmt....@gmail.com> 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 > <https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Plugins>? > Additionally, the installation process would be simpler. > > Thanks! > > D > > 2014-09-28 6:42 GMT+02:00 Davi <dsbo...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >
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