Re: tracker in KDE

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On Thursday 01 March 2012 15:10:51 Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 01/03/12 13:51, Martin Kho wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 March 2012 10:32:58 Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> >> On 27/11/11 18:26, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> >>> Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 11:21:20 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth:
> >>>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>> I don't know anything about tracker,
> >>>>> but your throw-away remark about NetworkManager seemed rather odd to
> >>>>> me.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Surely NM starts under KDE as well?
> >>>>> In fact NM seems to be a more-or-less essential part of Fedora
> >>>>> nowadays?
> >>>>> Is there any alternative?
> >>>> 
> >>>> I think he was referring to "nm-applet", the NetworkManager applet for
> >>>> GNOME, which in GNOME 2 times appeared in /etc/xdg/autostart but had
> >>>> "OnlyShowIn=GNOME" so it doesn't start in KDE.  (GNOME 3 doesn't use
> >>>> it anymore except in fallback mode AFAIK.)
> >>> 
> >>> That's the one I had in mind. And it would be grat if tracker could get
> >>> the
> >>> same settings. otherwise I have tracker and nepomuk/strigi cluttering my
> >>> hard disk.
> >> 
> >> So just to follow this up, we are now seeing tracker-store sometimes
> >> taking over 3GB memory on some systems, with poor consequences for other
> >> processes. I wonder if this is a bug or whether its actually doing
> >> something useful?
> >> 
> >> I'm also wondering if its sensible to stop tracker from starting in KDE?
> >> I could submit a BZ requesting that they not start in KDE, but what
> >> happens if someone runs eg totem or shotwell which seem to have a
> >> dependency on tracker? Do those apps start the tracker processes on the
> >> fly or do they just miss the tracker functionality?
> >> 
> >> Oh, I see someone got to the BZ nearly two months before me:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771601
> >> 
> >> Does anyone have a view on this? Maybe we are just hitting a bug in
> >> tracker-store and it would be ok to have it running if the bug were not
> >> there?
> > 
> > Hi Roderick,
> > 
> > I don't want to start a rant, but you can use the following workaround:
> > 
> > 1. cp /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-* to ~/.config/autostart/
> > 
> > 2. Edit each copied tracker desktop file:
> >     change: X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true to
> >     
> >                  X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
> > 
> > 3. Open System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown (-> Autostart)
> > 4. Unckeck all tracker Desktop Files
> > 
> > Now the tracker is diabled, it will not be started.
> > 
> > Hope this helps for the time being.
> 
> Thanks Martin
> 
> Following:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html
> (section "OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn Keys"), I was considering changing:
> 
> OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;XFCE;
> to
> OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;
> 
> in
> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker*.desktop
> 
> to make sure tracker is not started for any of my KDE users on my systems.

You can do that too, but when tracker is updated your changes will be lost.

Martin Kho

> 
> Roderick
> 
> > Martin Kho
> > 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> Roderick
> 
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