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[Davi <dsboger@xxxxxxxxx>]

My initial plan was to make a plugin, but now I think it is not 
possible to transform this in a "pure" plugin for Zim because of the 
integration with shell. There are some special descriptors that need to 
be installed in the system. Nevertheless, I think it is possible to 
export the Dbus service directly from a Zim plugin and access the 
search feature from inside. It should have better performance that 
spawning a process and better integration (specially for the "show more 
results" that currently does not work). It still would require the DBus 
activatable mechanics, I guess.

Em Dom, Set 28, 2014 em 5:04 , Dmitrij Lisov <dmt.lsv@xxxxxxxxx> 
escreveu:
> Hey Davi!
>
> That's a great idea, since I'm using the Gnome Shell for searching 
> and opening files a lot!
>
> Do you plan to release it as a plugin, so that it could be published 
> here? Additionally, the installation process would be simpler.
>
> Thanks!
>
> D
>
> 2014-09-28 6:42 GMT+02:00 Davi <dsboger@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hello people!
> >
> > My first message in the list. I've actually just "joined the team", 
> > according to LP anyway.
> >
> > I have been using Zim for while and it is an amazing productivity 
> > tool! I also use GNOME Shell with its great search capabilities. I 
> > thought it would be great to be able to search through my Zim 
> > notebook directly from Shell search, so I went ahead and developed a 
> > very simple search provider [2]. It seems to be working, but I'm 
> > very new to almost everything involved: although I have some 
> > programming background, I'm new to python, DBUS, GNOME Shell, Zim 
> > itself and even Git. I basically did a patchwork of a few tutorials 
> > I found about that stuff, so certainly there is much room for 
> > improvement.
> >
> > The workings are very simple: zimsearch.py is a python 3 script that 
> > implements a gtk3 application [3]. This app is DBus-activatable [4] 
> > and does nothing except creating a DBus object that impements the 
> > GNOME Shell search provider API. The service implementation 
> > basically spawns "zim --search" with the search terms and parses the 
> > stdout. There is some logic to identify the default notebook from 
> > notebooks.zim and to override the searched notebook from a special 
> > search term (notebook:...). Apart from the script, there are some 
> > descriptors to install the provider in DBus and GNOME Shell.
> >
> > If you would like to try it, I've make a script that installs the 
> > files to their directories. It Works For Me, but no guarantees 
> > otherwise. Please contact me if you are having trouble with the 
> > installation.
> >
> > Thak you for your time. I would certainly appreciate any feedback!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Davi.
> >
> > [1] Soure code: https://github.com/dsboger/zimsearch
> > [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/SearchProvider
> > [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/GtkApplication
> > [4] https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/DBusApplicationLaunching
> >
> >
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