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Subject: Re: Need some help with Dolphin
From: Srikanth S <srikanth85 () gmail ! com>
Date: 2012-06-12 5:58:42
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Thanks for your response Sebastian. Apart from the possible problems you've
mentioned, I see the following as well:
1. Many people would keep movies and such on external media - like external
HDD. In that case, the analysis needs to be done on a on-need basis - when
the HDD is connected. Even in that case, parsing through a 1TB HD to find
and analyze movie files is not practical.
2. IMDb explicitly forbids storing the results (except for website caching)
in any medium. So a static analyzer or cached results in any form is a
strict no.
Any other solutions? I was hoping that Dolphin APIs would allow for writing
extensions like these.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Sebastian D=F6rner <
sebastian@sebastian-doerner.de> wrote:
> 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 OS=
S
> > community for quiet some time.
> >
> > The first thing I wanted to create was to solve one of the problems tha=
t
> I
> > frequently face - i have a movies directory (actually many, and each on=
e
> > 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 wh=
en
> > 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 quic=
k
> > 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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Thanks for your response Sebastian. Apart from the possible problems you've \
mentioned, I see the following as well:<div>1. Many people would keep movies and such \
on external media - like external HDD. In that case, the analysis needs to be done on \
a on-need basis - when the HDD is connected. Even in that case, parsing through a 1TB \
HD to find and analyze movie files is not practical.</div>
<div>2. IMDb explicitly forbids storing the results (except for website caching) in \
any medium. So a static analyzer or cached results in any form is a strict no. \
</div><div><br></div><div>Any other solutions? I was hoping that Dolphin APIs would \
allow for writing extensions like these.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Sebastian Dörner <span \
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@sebastian-doerner.de" \
target="_blank">sebastian@sebastian-doerner.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think the general way to do this is to write a strigi analyzer.<br>
Strigi is a service running in the background indexing your files.<br>
This information is stored in Nepomuk and that is where Dolphin gets<br>
the information from. I guess that in theory the strigi analyzer could<br>
fetch data from the internet as well. However, I am not an expert in<br>
this area, so there might be some obstacles like (just guesses):<br>
<br>
- strigi analyzer cannot / should not fetch from the network (probably<br>
at least not without user consent)<br>
- privacy implications of automatically retrieving meta data about all<br>
the files on your HD<br>
<br>
Things to search for:<br>
- Shared Desktop Ontologies: These are used by Nepomuk. The meta data<br>
would need to fit into the scheme, or the scheme extended.<br>
- Strigi, Nepomuk<br>
<a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Writing_file_analyzers" \
target="_blank">http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Writing_file_analyzers</a><br>
<br>
Hope that gives some starting points.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Seb<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On 11 June 2012 18:43, Srikanth S <<a \
href="mailto:srikanth85@gmail.com">srikanth85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > \
Hi,<br> ><br>
> I am very new to this, though I've been wanting to contribute to the OSS<br>
> community for quiet some time.<br>
><br>
> The first thing I wanted to create was to solve one of the problems that I<br>
> frequently face - i have a movies directory (actually many, and each one<br>
> pretty dynamic too), having a list of subdirectories or files each<br>
> representing a movie. I want to know the IMDb/rottentomatoes details of each<br>
> of those movies. And ideally, i'd want that information as a tooltip \
when<br> > hovering over the movie file :)<br>
><br>
> I am fairly well-versed with programming and software development, but \
I've<br> > worked only in JavaSE/EE stack.<br>
><br>
> My question was, is something like this doable on Dolphin? I did a quick<br>
> search to see if there is any API available for the same, but couldn't \
find<br> > it.<br>
><br>
> Any help would be appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
><br>
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