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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Need some help with Dolphin
From:       Sebastian_Dörner <sebastian () sebastian-doerner ! de>
Date:       2012-06-11 23:20:54
Message-ID: CA+_kBjB1FTBTuYKmeGAk4Z8fJPBKFJ7rM1UisJJXLoMOs+VM7Q () mail ! gmail ! com
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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 <srikanth85@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
>
>
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