Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Iain <iain gnome org>]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be> wrote:

> Sorry but, with DBusGProxy you already have a GObject that you can
> immediately connect a signal to and get informed when something gets
> added, removed and changed.
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/SignalsOnChanges
>
> With DBusGProxy you also already have a GObject to make a SPARQL query.
> You just have one method called SparqlQuery that takes a string, and
> that returns an array of an array of strings.
>
> It can't get much more simple than that.
>
> Except that with libtracker-client you don't even have to think DBus
> anymore.

I saw the DBus API, I just didn't seriously think you were proposing
it as application facing API.
Porting the QTtracker library (or writing a high-level GObject
equivalent) should be a priority if
you want to get Tracker accepted by GNOME.

iain