Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Rob Taylor <rob taylor codethink co uk>]

Iain wrote:
> 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.

As John mentioned earlier, see:

https://labs.codethink.co.uk/index.php/p/sparql-glib/

I'd be quite happy to propose this as a GNOME module. It probably needs
some cleaning and tidying but is completely usable at this point.

Thanks,
Rob


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