Hey!

As planned, this week I finished our new Chrome extension together with the NPAPI plugin. In the end the javascript part of the extension didn't turn out to be as straightforward as I expected, but using some not-so-nice hacks  it does what it's supposed to do. After I finished the Chrome extension I tried to make our new totem plugin using libzeitgeist build out of totem's tree, and fortunately this was easier than I thought it would, so it's done now and I also got some time to start to revamp the build system in zeitgeist-dataproviders [1], and even though now it's a strange mix of autotools in the top source directory and our own Makefiles in the plugin dirs, it works and currently provides the ability to detect which plugins can be build and it builds only those (note that it's incomplete, but the framework is there).

Plan for the next week is to move the whole build system to autotools, with the ultimate goal of making it possible to build packages of the dataproviders. Once that is done, I'll start to write another totem plugin, this time one which will pull data from ZG and therefore will add some UI elements to totem. Stay tuned ;)

Note to self: maybe I'm too spoiled by python, but this just doesn't work in JS (at least not when writing Chrome extension), even though there's no warning/error:

if (condition) {
    function callback () {
        console.log("You'll never see this");
    }
    document.addEventListener("event", callback, false);
}

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/zeitgeist-dataproviders

Hey everyone!

This week I've been busy with traveling and moving, but during the past few days I finally managed to work, so here's what I did:

I started implementing Zeitgeist dataprovider for Chrome (using NPAPI), but this turned out to be quite hard, as after the initial implementation the plugin was working fine in Firefox, but didn't want to show up in Chrome, there weren't any error messages and strace didn't even show Chrome trying to open the dynamic library (and strace -f was hanging)... So it was quite "fun"! Anyway today I managed to make it work and now we have a first version of Chrome extension!


Plan for next week is:

• finish the Chrome extension, so it doesn't send multiple events for one website visit as it does now... Also does anyone know how to get document mime-type in Chrome?
• if time allows, I'll try to make our new Totem extension to build out of totem tree, which might not be that easy to do (actually I'm not sure it's even possible)