Hello, Back to office. An answer bellow. > -----Original Message----- > From: ext Patrick Ohly [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 14. syyskuuta 2010 12:57 > To: Frade Ivan (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) > Cc: Goddard Michael (Nokia-MS-Qt/Brisbane); Stojiljkovic Aleksandar > (Nokia-MS/Helsinki); MeeGo-dev > Subject: Re: QtContacts + Tracker: PHOTO not stored (BMC #5879) > > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 08:19 +0100, Ivan Frade wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > > > AFAIK it is a bug in qtcontacts-tracker. In tracker you save in > > nco:photo (a DataObject with) the path of the contact photo. The > binary > > blob with the picture is *not* in tracker (it is a regular file in > the > > filesystem). > > Ah, I see. I didn't follow the definition of nco:photo into the nie > ontology (still learning all this...). Right now, nco:photo in MeeGo > points towards an ID (icon-m-content-avatar-placeholder) about which no > further information is recorded. > > So the questions then become: > * Where should such a file be stored? > * Who creates and removes it? > > Both qtcontacts-tracker and contactsd (= Telepathy2Tracker sync, > http://gitorious.org/qtcontacts-tracker/contactsd) create contacts. > Based on the the alternative name ("to tracker") I assumed that > contactsd would interface with Tracker directly, but looking at the > source code briefly shows that it has dependencies on QtContacts. > Aleksandar, can you clarify?
Unit test (ut_trackersink) in contactsd is verifying that what is stored to tracker by contactsd is read by libqtm-contacts. That's where the dependency comes from. Could separate packages though, if this is a problem. The bug in subject is fixed, btw. Best Regards, Aleksandar > > If qtcontacts-tracker is the only entity which is allowed to manipulate > nco:photo items, then we don't need a system-wide policy. For apps, > Tracker data about contacts basically becomes read-only. > > > The really great solution would be to integrate the contact picture > > with the thumbnailing system (get the photo of the contact is like > > asking a thumbnail of the contact URL); but that is not > > implemented/supported or even designed yet. > > "the thumbnailing system" - this is the first time I hear about this. > Do > you have pointers to further information about it? > > -- > Best Regards, Patrick Ohly > > The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although > I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way > represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak > on behalf of Intel on this matter. > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
