Re: [Tracker] track only postscript and pdfs?

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

On 16/04/2008, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:

2008/4/15, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>:

> On 15/04/2008, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> > 008/4/11, Parker Jones <zoubidoo hotmail com>:
> >
> > >
> > >  Hello,
> > >
> > >  I'd like to use tracker to monitor only pdf's and postscript files.  Is
> this possible?
> > >
> > >  At the moment, I ignore a number of extensions *.doc *.html *.png  etc,
>  but the ignore list is getting too long and still too many files are
> getting tracked.
> >
> >
> > I think this should be  doable:
> > We should not only have a blacklist of file extenstions, but also a
> whitelist.
> > Then add * in the blacklist and *.pdf and *.ps to the whitelist. The
> > whitelist should have a higher priority then the blacklist. I'd say
> > (without looking at the code), that this could be fixed easily.
>
>  Or go old-school and just make a list of regexps..? Then one could simply
> write a not-pdf-or-ps blacklist regexp.
>


Would be an option. But do you think this would be intuitive for the
average user?

Was that a rhetorical question? Heck, no! I bet that less than 0.1% of the Tracker users know regexps :-)

Anyways, Beagle does in fact seem to support it. Or maybe it is just globbing.

Cheers,
Mikkel