On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 23:41 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > Hi Adam, > > On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 14:01 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > oop, good catch. I did suspect it's going to become more a part of the > > GNOME Experience from now on, though I think I missed the bit where > > tracker beat zeitgeist =) > > Yeah, tracker is a required dependency of gnome-documents now. As > Bastien says, we should try to identify and fix possible bugs and > resource issues upstream. > > I also think tracker should use a different default configuration; these > are the changes I think we should make: > - removable media indexing should be off by default - I don't know if > this is used by the totem grilo integration, but it's not by > gnome-documents. Anyway, I think the best way to approach this is > tracker should just be aware of removable media and applications who > make use of them should be able to have them crawled on-demand, but that > needs fixing in tracker first. > - indexing should be enabled on battery - right now it's disabled. If we > disable indexing on battery, applications like gnome-documents will be > "locked" into the last view of the local file entries in the tracker > database before you unplugged the cable, which is very ugly. > > Having used tracker on by default for a bit now it seems that after the > initial crawling, which is an expensive operation, I didn't notice any > particular increase in resource usage. With removable devices indexing > off, this should ideally be a one-shot operation. > > As a side note, I also took some time to clean up the tracker spec file > a bit (patches at [1]); I think the flickr miner (which doesn't use > g-o-a and is not easily configurable) should be split in a separate > package, disabled by default. > > [1] http://people.gnome.org/~cosimoc/tracker-patches/ These changes sound like a good idea, and should help a lot to keep the 'tracker-induced rage' down. CC'ing the tracker package maintainer to get his ok before we enact this. Matthias -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
