Re: [Tracker] Tracker and sandboxed applications

2016-01-30 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 11:33 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote: Hi Sam, > We had a discussion at the 2016 Developer Experience hackfest related > to sandboxing apps that use Tracker. Sounds interesting! I heard of several companies in automotive and TV setup box industries using Tracker in lightweight

Re: [Tracker] Tracker and sandboxed applications

2016-01-30 Thread Sam Thursfield
On 1/29/16, Debarshi Ray wrote: > Hey, > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:33:16AM +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote: >> We decided on the latter approach for the time being: adapt Tracker >> into a library that can be used by sandboxed apps to provide mining, >> monitoring and query functionality for whatev

Re: [Tracker] Tracker and sandboxed applications

2016-01-29 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:33:16AM +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote: > We decided on the latter approach for the time being: adapt Tracker > into a library that can be used by sandboxed apps to provide mining, > monitoring and query functionality for whatever directories that app > can see. What

[Tracker] Tracker and sandboxed applications

2016-01-29 Thread Sam Thursfield
Hi We had a discussion at the 2016 Developer Experience hackfest related to sandboxing apps that use Tracker. xdg-app is already at a point where people can (and are!) using it as an build and distribution system for apps. The sandboxing aspect is less developed, but that will be the next step.