Re: [Tracker] work items for 0.6.5

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:14 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 01/02/2008 alle 22.32 +0800, Halton Huo ha scritto:
> > I will take Chinese New Year leave until Feb. 17. If time is allowed, 
> > I can do 1) and 3).
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:05 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > There are a few things that need doing before for 0.6.5 so if any of you
> > > has time to spare (i have little) so feel free to volunteer:
> > > 
> > > 1) add an optional auto-pause feature to tracker-applet which pauses
> > > trackerd for a few secs whenever a keyboard or mouse event is detected
> > > (use gdk to listen to X event queue for this just like screensavers
> > > do). 
> > > 
> > > this feature would prevent trackerd from slowing down the computer
> > > whenever the user is actively using the machine
> > Seems good feature. One question is, if user want to do something and
> > trackerd index at the same time, which means he does not take the
> > slowing down, can we offer a choice?
> 
> Are we sure this is a good idea?
> 
> I mean, it could be interesting slow down trackerd if I'm writing and I
> want a responsive OO.o Writer UI, or I'm watching a movie and I don't
> want to miss a frame, but pause trackerd at any mouse/keyboard gesture
> seems too much...
> 
> Usually, when I'm in front of my PC, I move the mouse or hit the
> keyboard all the time: do this mean that my files will never indexed? 
> 
> OK, I'm exaggerating, but I hope this pause feature will not applied to
> first index creation, or will be a pain...
> 

maybe just do it during index merge as thats the only point that hits
I/O hard

In any event we need to make sure we dont slow the computer down so
thats its noticeable as I had a few grumbles from ubuntu devs 

jamie