Use GNOME Tracker instead of recoll

eugeneia / recall

Recoll frontend for ElementaryOS

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Use GNOME Tracker instead of recoll #10

Open eugeneia opened 5 years ago

eugeneia commented 5 years ago

As suggested in #9, the dependency on recoll could be replaced by using GNOME Tracker and libtracker-sparql instead.

Some questions:

How does the database/search quality provided by Tracker compare to recoll? I.e., amount of supported metadata, document types, usefulness of query language etc.
Would using Tracker mean better integration with other apps from the GNOME ecosystem?
Are there any Elementary specific Tracker integrations?

Letterus commented 2 years ago

Any plans/news on this? I do not have good experiences with GNOME Tracker and would rather try Recoll and would like to think about if one may modify Recoll in a way that this app may be pushed again.

Letterus commented 2 years ago

From the recoll autoconf:

AC_ARG_ENABLE(qtgui, 
    AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-qtgui],
   [Disable the QT-based graphical user interface.]),
        enableQT=$enableval, enableQT="yes")
AM_CONDITIONAL(MAKEQT, [test X$enableQT = Xyes])

AC_ARG_ENABLE(recollq, 
    AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-recollq],
   [Enable building the recollq command line query tool (recoll -t without
   need for Qt). This is done by default if --disable-qtgui is set but this
   option enables forcing it.]),

eugeneia commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I basically gave up on getting this into elementary because I don’t have the time to look into Gnome Tracker. I also do not have an elementary machine right now.

If you find a way to satisfy elementary packaging requirements I would be happy to merge or even transfer Recall to you, if you want to develop it further.

As far as I know Recall works fairly well as is short of the documented issues.

Cheers!

Letterus commented 2 years ago

Thank you for your reply!

I think it should be possible to build the app against Recoll as a lib without using the GUI. I'm taking a note to try that at the end of the year. I'd favour usage of Recoll instead of GNOME Tracker.

Edit: Recoll's API is a Python API. Python provides a Python/C API that could be bound to Vala using VAPI: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/intro.html

Letterus commented 2 years ago

Oh, and: I installed it - it works nicely! Thank you for this nice app!

Letterus commented 2 years ago

As I just saw it on Twitter: If the API works I should just create a pull request to integrate it into the application menu, https://github.com/elementary/applications-menu, @danrabbit. ;-)

danirabbit commented 2 years ago

@Letterus definitely would love pull requests, but probably a more appropriate place here is Files: https://github.com/elementary/files/issues/1671

Letterus commented 1 year ago

Just to let you know: I ended up reactivating an old Recoll plugin for the Synapse file/app launcher. Synapse supports Zeitgeist and starting apps as well. So it's very versatile and easy to access and use: https://codeberg.org/Letterus/synapse-project

(Would be a nice desktop supplement for elementary OS as well, imho. ;-)).