Hi, thanks for answering.
On Friday, 7 October 2016 10:44:02 CEST Vishesh Handa wrote: > Hey Martin > > Baloo is only designed for searching for files. It is not a meta-data > store. If the data you're extracting is present in the file, then it > could potentially be added to Baloo. It is not, I get that data from an external source (currently themoviedb). > The important thing to look at is how to present the data, and how > does the data help in searching. For example - providing the name of > an actor in a movie could make the movie popup when searching for that > name. This is great, however, the user needs to be given a clear > explanation of why that file is in the search results. Agreed, the dream actually is creating something along the lines of the multimedia library described on the nepomukport page[1] for potential use in Plasma Media Center. I found https://community.kde.org/Baloo/Architecture since my email, and am now thinking of creating a new data/search store plugin. > Our main search interface, krunner, isn't designed to provide this > additional context. Therefore, adding actor information, is not > something I would want to ship. Understood. I'd like to ask for a few pointers though : Does documentation on how to write new search/store plugins exist? >From what I understood, I'll have to take care of storing the data myself. I see that baloo uses LMDB, Xapian and SQLite. Any pointers as to which db system (or a completely different one) is well adapted to this kind of use? At the moment I tend to lean towards LMDB, but have no real technical argument for it... Thanks, Martin [1] https://community.kde.org/Baloo/NepomukPort#Bangarang
