Re: [Tracker] Fw: Tracker support for Bluetooth/ipod

2010-05-17 Thread Martyn Russell
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:39 -0700, Remo Remo wrote: is it possible for tracker to insert metadata in user-provided SQLite database. Hmm, you mean one YOU provide? or a separate database for user data? If you mean the former, how would you expect that to work? If you mean the later, we don't

Re: [Tracker] tracker plugin for iphone/blutooth

2010-05-17 Thread Martyn Russell
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 10:44 -0700, Remo Remo wrote: Hi, is their any plugin provided by tracker to extract metadata for bluetooth ipod/iphone devices? No not right now. Also, please avoid re-posting to the list. -- Regards, Martyn ___

Re: [Tracker] libicu libunistring based parsers (was:Re: libunistring-based parser in libtracker-fts)

2010-05-17 Thread Aleksander Morgado
Also developed a tester which uses the parser in libtracker-fts, available in tests/libtracker-fts/tracker-parser-test.c Once compiled, you can use --file to specify the file to parse. Perfect. Testing is quite important here. If we have a test case that is automated, you get

[Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I want to store lots of (valuable) additional metadata about my files in the tracker database. However, I am a little bit concerned about the safety of this information. Apparently, tracker deletes everything that is associated with a given file if it can't find the file itself. Is there

Re: [Tracker] Confused by search

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Adrien Bustany abustany-rdkqcyrbjuzytjvyw6y...@public.gmane.org writes: On Fri, 14 May 2010 16:46:09 -0400, Nikolaus Rath nikolaus-bth8mxji...@public.gmane.org wrote: On 05/14/2010 03:32 PM, Adrien Bustany wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 13:50:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, I want to store lots of (valuable) additional metadata about my files in the tracker database. However, I am a little bit concerned about the safety of this information. Apparently, tracker deletes everything that is

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Martyn Russell
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, Hello, I want to store lots of (valuable) additional metadata about my files in the tracker database. However, I am a little bit concerned about the safety of this information. Apparently, tracker deletes everything that is

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, I want to store lots of (valuable) additional metadata about my files in the tracker database. However, I am a little bit concerned about the safety of this

[Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, Is it possible to have tracker automatically read additional metadata from a second file? For example, if tracker indexes testfile.odt, I want it to automatically read metadata about testfile.odt from testfile.odt.xml (or some other suitable format). Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies

Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

2010-05-17 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:26 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have tracker automatically read additional metadata from a second file? For example, if tracker indexes testfile.odt, I want it to automatically read metadata about testfile.odt from testfile.odt.xml (or some

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:23 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, I want to store lots of (valuable) additional metadata about my files in the tracker database.

Re: [Tracker] search query syntax

2010-05-17 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 16:10 -0300, Zoho Vignochi wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 15:49 -0300, Zoho Vignochi wrote: snip So my questions are: 1. is this the correct mailing list to post these questions? 2. can tracker-search understand REGEX directly or should i be using tracker-sparql

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Martyn Russell
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 19:42 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:23 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, I want to store lots of (valuable)

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: How can Tracker (reliably) detect if a resource is on an external drive? I can't believe that this works for anything but the trivial case where /dev/sdX is directly mounted. But if the disk is e.g. LUKS encrypted, then

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:12 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: How can Tracker (reliably) detect if a resource is on an external drive? I can't believe that this works for anything but the trivial case where /dev/sdX is directly

Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:26 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have tracker automatically read additional metadata from a second file? For example, if tracker indexes testfile.odt, I want it to

Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

2010-05-17 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:19 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:26 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have tracker automatically read additional metadata from a second file? For

Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

2010-05-17 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 21:23 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: Does the XMP file have to have a special file name, Read the specification, look for XMP sidekick files http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/ ps. I think Adobe calls them XMP sidecar files, or something:

Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:19 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv2jw-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:26 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, Is it

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:12 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Philip Van Hoof spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv2jw-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org writes: How can Tracker (reliably) detect if a resource is on an external drive?

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Martyn Russell
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:41 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I already explained what we consider to be a removable device. Martyn also replied to you that info. I really don't mean to offend you, but it seems that I missed or misunderstood that information. I gather that you use GIO and fall

Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

2010-05-17 Thread Martyn Russell
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:19 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: There seems to be a lot of XMPs though. Are you talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform? Does the XMP file have to have a special file name, or is the name of the described file part of the XMP data itself?

Re: [Tracker] Prevent removed files from being removed from the db

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Martyn Russell martyn-bhgbangmcjvqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org writes: I really don't mean to offend you, but it seems that I missed or misunderstood that information. I gather that you use GIO and fall back on HAL/devicekit, but I'm still not sure what devices will qualify as removable. To

Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

2010-05-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Martyn Russell martyn-bhgbangmcjvqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org writes: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:19 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: There seems to be a lot of XMPs though. Are you talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform? Does the XMP file have to have a special file