Hi KDE team, as a fun project and to play around with Plasma and Python Bindings, I am developing a plasmoid (in python) that I was always missing since I first saw strigi digging through my file system. Basically, it is a remake of a little tool Apple is offering in OSX. They have a simple line entry in the upper right corner of a desktop and when you enter any text it looks in local indexed file names, contents, meta information, contacts, anything you can think of for the search entry. I always wanted this for KDE and I thought it might be good thing to start with.
As the UI is fairly simple I quickly got to a point that I actually want to access the index databases and here's where I would need someone to point me in the right direction. I was looking through the docs and the way I understand it, there will be multiple sources I need to query. Nepomuk calls that type 2 and 3 meta information that I will definately need but the first and far most important thing is file names. So I'd like to start with that. I understand the Strigi file indexer runs through all my files, extracting meta information for the Nepomuk database, right? So is there a preferred way of accessing this index? Strigi is not listed in the kde python bindings but I might write my own for that. The project information / website are a little sparse so is that what I need to do or is there another access point? I don't need file content at this point but I do need to have some sort of search functionality upon this index. Any hints are greatly appreciated. Cheers, Stephan >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
