<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><pre>2006/10/30, Jos van den Oever <<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jvdoever at gmail.com</a>>: > To make it a bit more concrete (yes, you're probably not running > strigi svn) here's some code that generates the xml output using > kde3's metadata framework. I'm sure doing the same for other programs > is easy too. Then comes the hard task: making it all consistent. Here's already a new version of the kde3 code. I forgot to escape the special xml entities. It's probably a good idea to open up a project in svn for this stuff. If there's enough interest about it, that is. Can someone arrange that? The testcases should also go in there. Cheers, Jos</pre></blockquote><div>  </div>Picking up the track from Gnome d-d-l I am interested in hearing if your are also looking into a unifying dbus api for desktop indexers? Being a deskbar developer I am greatly interested in this part of a potential spec. If you are more on the metadata extraction part of it now (as it would seem) I can try and make an overview of the current available apis, and try to make some form of synthesis we can use as a base for further discussion... Cheers, Mikkel PS: What indexers are around (and actively developed/maintained, and actually has working code):  - Tracker <a href="http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/">http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/ </a>  - Beagle <a href="http://beagle-project.org/">http://beagle-project.org/</a>  - Strigi <a href="http://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/">http://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/</a>  - Pinot <a href="http://pinot.berlios.de/"> http://pinot.berlios.de/</a>  - GLSCube <a href="http://www.glscube.org/">http://www.glscube.org/</a>  - Nepomuk <a href="http://nepomuk-kde.semanticdesktop.org">http://nepomuk-kde.semanticdesktop.org</a> (do they have any code?)