[tracker/tracker-0.8] Fixes GB#617082, RFE Useability - Learning How to Start the Miners was a Little Unintuitive
- From: Martyn James Russell <mr src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [tracker/tracker-0.8] Fixes GB#617082, RFE Useability - Learning How to Start the Miners was a Little Unintuitive
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:13:52 +0000 (UTC)
commit eee46408cad9c3ef418f6156fa6792bf4d653a85
Author: Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>
Date: Tue May 11 11:25:35 2010 +0100
Fixes GB#617082, RFE Useability - Learning How to Start the Miners was a Little Unintuitive
docs/manpages/tracker-control.1 | 6 ++++++
docs/manpages/tracker-status.1 | 23 +++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/docs/manpages/tracker-control.1 b/docs/manpages/tracker-control.1
index 3bfe23c..d8c0e9e 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/tracker-control.1
+++ b/docs/manpages/tracker-control.1
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ tracker-control \- Manage Tracker processes and data
lists all tracker related processes when no
\fIOPTION\fRs are specified.
+To see the status of the miners and the store, use
+.B tracker-status.
+You can pause or resume miners and also see which ones
+are running and which ones are installed.
+
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-?, \-\-help
@@ -69,4 +74,5 @@ more than once per \fIMIME\fR type.
Print version.
.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR tracker-status (1),
.BR tracker-store (1).
diff --git a/docs/manpages/tracker-status.1 b/docs/manpages/tracker-status.1
index f3ce7e4..1d1b52a 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/tracker-status.1
+++ b/docs/manpages/tracker-status.1
@@ -8,13 +8,24 @@ tracker-status \- Report the state of all data miners
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B tracker-status
-shows the status of all miners installed. It also allows pausing and
-resuming of miners. For
-.B tracker-store
-state, you need to use
-.B tracker-control
-.PP
+shows the status of all miners and the store which miners push
+information into. To do this, you can run
+.B tracker-status
+with no command line arguments. For
+.B tracker-store,
+the status is always
+.B Idle
+unless it is replaying a journal (regardless of load from applications
+or miners). For a list of common statuses, see
+.B \-\-list\-common\-statuses.
+The miners can be paused or resumed using this command and you can
+list miners running and available.
+
+To start or stop miners, you need to use
+.B tracker-control.
+The store is started automatically by the D-Bus calls from the miners.
+.PP
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-?, \-\-help
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