Documentation

This page is to direct developers to documentation that they would find helpful when developing their application to make use of Tracker technologies. This page is still being written, so some of this information is not yet available.

Tracker 0.6

Update: Now some documentation of tracker APIs is available in library.gnome.org:

• libtracker-common API: Common functions when you develop inside tracker

• libtracker-module API: API to be implemented in indexer modules for tracker

• RDF and how to use it. - http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/RDF-Query

• Example: How to add playlists in tracker (how to write a metadata extractor step by step)

Tracker 0.7

• Building Tracker 0.7 from sources

• Signals on changes

• Application development manual

• E-mail via SPARQL with Tracker

• Setting a tag, a few examples

• Presentations about Tracker

• Transaction semantics in Tracker

• Debugging problems in Tracker 0.7

• Contacts ontology description

• Web history ontology description

• Tracker's write back capability

Miscellaneous

• Tips and tricks: debugging and testing.
  • The logs
  • The most common problems
  • How to know why a file is not in tracker (test extractor stand-alone, check the DBs,..)