I think the general way to do this is to write a strigi analyzer. Strigi is a service running in the background indexing your files. This information is stored in Nepomuk and that is where Dolphin gets the information from. I guess that in theory the strigi analyzer could fetch data from the internet as well. However, I am not an expert in this area, so there might be some obstacles like (just guesses):
- strigi analyzer cannot / should not fetch from the network (probably at least not without user consent) - privacy implications of automatically retrieving meta data about all the files on your HD Things to search for: - Shared Desktop Ontologies: These are used by Nepomuk. The meta data would need to fit into the scheme, or the scheme extended. - Strigi, Nepomuk http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Writing_file_analyzers Hope that gives some starting points. Regards Seb On 11 June 2012 18:43, Srikanth S <srikant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am very new to this, though I've been wanting to contribute to the OSS > community for quiet some time. > > The first thing I wanted to create was to solve one of the problems that I > frequently face - i have a movies directory (actually many, and each one > pretty dynamic too), having a list of subdirectories or files each > representing a movie. I want to know the IMDb/rottentomatoes details of each > of those movies. And ideally, i'd want that information as a tooltip when > hovering over the movie file :) > > I am fairly well-versed with programming and software development, but I've > worked only in JavaSE/EE stack. > > My question was, is something like this doable on Dolphin? I did a quick > search to see if there is any API available for the same, but couldn't find > it. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe >>> << > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
