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See Initiatives#17 for background.

Photos makes heavy use of Tracker and there are several changes we'll need to make for it to work with Tracker 3. Here's what I think we need to do:

• Port to libtracker-sparql 3.x API
• Account for file & dataobjects being different resources in Tracker 3.x (modify photos-query-builder.c to query both the nmm:Photo and the nfo:FileDataObject resource)
• Honour graph separation
  • Modify queries to only look at the tracker:Pictures graph
  • Set corresponding policy in the xdg-tracker-portal Flatpak portal
• Store albums and favourites in a private Tracker database (in 2.x they were stored in the session-wide Tracker store, which no longer exists in 3.x) -- queries will need to updated too.
• Replace TrackerMinerManager usage with direct call to IndexFile
  • Add a way to monitor progress of IndexFile call, so we can display a notification without trying to contact the Miner over D-Bus (which won't be possible in a sandbox)
• Update Flatpak manifest to use Tracker from GNOME SDK (we might still include tracker-miners ... i'm not sure if it's useful or not inside the sandbox)

Also, we need a way to export albums and favourites from the Tracker 2 database, and import them to the new Photos app database. My initial attempt is here: tracker!262 (merged) and https://gitlab.gnome.org/sthursfield/tracker-data-migration-tools/

Some things I would like to do as part of this porting effort, but are not required:

• #59 (closed) (use TrackerNotifier instead of monitoring GraphUpdated signal)
• #83 (make online miners private to gnome-photos and include them in the Flatpak bundle)
• improve testing
  • the dogtail test is currently broken
  • there's no test for any Tracker related codepaths