Re: [Tracker] NEWS and TODO patches

2009-01-29 Thread Martyn Russell

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
tshep...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

After applying the TODO diff, will you also update that file, the
section on removable media. Thanks...


will you rather apply this patch instead


Committed a variation of the patch. I added to it (more so the NEWS). 
Thanks for the patch Tshepang :)


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Re: [Tracker] NEWS and TODO patches

2009-01-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
tshep...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 After applying the TODO diff, will you also update that file, the
 section on removable media. Thanks...

will you rather apply this patch instead


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Index: docs/manpages/trackerd.1
===
--- docs/manpages/trackerd.1	(revision 2825)
+++ docs/manpages/trackerd.1	(working copy)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH trackerd 1 July 2007 GNU User Commands
+.TH trackerd 1 Jan 2008 GNU User Commands
 
 .SH NAME
 trackerd \- indexer daemon for tracker search tool
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ needs a
 to be running within your current session.
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
+.BR tracker-applet (1),
 .BR tracker-search-tool (1),
 .BR tracker-search (1),
 .BR tracker-tag (1),
Index: README
===
--- README	(revision 2825)
+++ README	(working copy)
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ Table of Contents
 6.1 Usage
 6.2 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
 6.3 Tracker files
-7 Tracker  Nautilus Search
-8 Tracker  Deskbar applet
-9 Tracker tools
+7 Integration with other tools
+7.1 Nautilus search
+7.2 Deskbar applet
+8 Tracker tools
 
 
 1 Introduction
@@ -42,11 +43,12 @@ Table of Contents
   Supported first class objects include:
 
   * Files, Documents, Music, Images, Videos, Applications, Emails,
-Conversations, History, Playlists
+Conversations, Playlists
 
   Planned support:
 
-  * Appointments, Contacts, Projects, Tasks, Bookmarks, Notes
+  * Appointments, Contacts, Projects, Tasks, Bookmarks, Notes,
+Firefox Web History
 
   All discussion related to tracker happens on the Tracker
   mailing list
@@ -343,8 +345,10 @@ Table of Contents
 session data.
 
 
-7 Tracker  Nautilus Search
+7 Integration with other tools
 
+7.1 Nautilus Search
+
   Once you have installed Tracker and have some indexed contents,
   you should now compile Nautilus (ver 2.13.4 or higher) which
   should auto-detect that Tracker is installed and automatically
@@ -358,17 +362,26 @@ Table of Contents
   /usr/bin/trackerd). For non-GNOME installations, see the
   desktop docs for how to achieve similar.
 
+7.2 Deskbar applet
 
-8 Tracker  Deskbar applet
+  Tracker is also integrated in GNOME's deskbar applet.
+  
+  Here are the compile options on how to get it built:
 
-  Tracker is also integrated in GNOME's deskbar applet. See
-  Compile Options above on how to get it built.
+--enable-deskbar-applet=(auto, handler, module) : enables 	 
+Deskbar-applet support; 'auto' should do since it automatically 	 
+chooses whether to install the 'handler' (for Deskbar-applet 	 
+=2.16) or the 'module' (for Deskbar-applet =2.19) 	 
+	  	 
+--with-deskbar-applet-dir=(directory where Deskbar-applet 	 
+should find tracker-handler; this should be automatically 	 
+detected, perhaps in 	 
+/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/{handlers,modules-2.20-compatible})
 
 
-9 Tracker Tools
+8 Tracker Tools
 
   The Tracker distribution comes with a number of useful utilities which
   are listed at the bottom of trackerd man page, man trackerd. It's
   recommended that you use the --help command line switch
-  (e.g., tracker-services --help) for a more up-to-date usage info.
-
+  (e.g., tracker-services --help) for more up-to-date usage info.
Index: TODO
===
--- TODO	(revision 2825)
+++ TODO	(working copy)
@@ -1,28 +1,32 @@
 General:
-
 * XESAM integration
-* Indexer backend independence (not just rely on SQLite)
 * Automatic language detection
 
 Application support:
-
 * Balsa mboxes
 * Brasero integration
 * Epiphany integration (bookmarks and history)
 * Rhythmbox integration
 * Tomboy notes indexing
+* Modest, a mobile email client (much work already exists in svn trunk)
 
 Search:
-
 * Search filtering (e.g. search within specific folders)
 * Search results that update in real time
 * Search within archives
-* exact phrase search
-* Wildcard search
 
+Internal:
+* Crawler to move to Indexer
+* FTS support (replacement of QDBM, the current index db)
+  - enables exact phrase searches
+  - enables wildcard searches
+  - enables prefix searches (pre*)
+* Denormalised tables
+* Better libtracker support for Maemo platform applications?
 
-Tracker SoC project ideas:
 
+2007 Tracker SoC project ideas:
+
 1. HAL integration into Tracker
 
 * We need to be able to handle files in removable media
Index: NEWS
===
--- NEWS	(revision 2825)
+++ NEWS	(working copy)
@@ -12,15 +12,18 @@ Tracker 0.6.90
   GLib's GIO usage
   * In-house file monitoring dropped.
   * Addition of unit tests.
-  * TST (GUI search) migrated away from the deprecated gnome-vfs2
+  * TST (GUI search) migrated away from the deprecated gnome-vfs2.
 
   Miscellaneous
-  * Added support for