Re: [Tracker] [Patch] First tracker gui patch

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Samuel Cormier-Iijima wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > Samuel Cormier-Iijima wrote:
> > > I have a little GUI that I coded up... it avoids using glade (the
> > > current version in CVS can't find the glade file when installed).
> >
> > Thats easy to fix - it needs to be in DATADIR
> >
> >   The
> > > searching works, I'm trying to find out some cool ways to display the
> > > results... but Tracker doesn't seem to like GetMTime and other
> > > functions.
> >
> > I dont have time to look at these in the next few weeks as Edgy universe
> > freeze is 28th Spet and Gnome module proposal deadline is mid-october.
> >
> > Also, it doesn't have the filtering by service type or any
> > > type of paging yet... its just an example of how to actually get
> > > results from tracker. Anyways, the code is attached. :-)
> > >
> >
> > Okay not bad but I would like to use glade while we are experimenting as
> > its quicker and easy to maintain. (Glade can also generate C Code)
>
> reasonable enough... anyways, i'm gonna try to break tracker through
> dbus, just to make sure we don't have random segfaults when searching,
> which hangs anybody waiting on trackerd. :-)

yes a lot of the methods could also do with more error checking on input 
parameters (use g_return_if_fail)

We could do with a test suite for the Dbus interface too in either 
Python or Shell script (using dbus-send)

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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