Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 11:07 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:41:42AM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:21 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > On 29/10/09 15:23, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I agree it needs fixing, but there are a number of things to consider here:
> > > 
> > >   - FANotify is being worked on by Red Hat and will be in the kernel for
> > >     us to use at some point - and we will adopt it then (I believe it
> > >     almost made it into the latest Fedora but didn't so should be in the
> > >     next release)
> > > 
> > >   - We changed the locations that are indexed by default from $HOME to
> > >     use XDG user dirs for documents, desktop, music, pictures and videos.
> > >     So the focus has changed slightly to the things you most likely want
> > >     indexed instead of EVERYTHING. Of course adding EVERYTHING into the
> > >     config doesn't escape the fact that inotify is limiting us.
> > 
> > This is kind of nice. Would it be possible to in addition to these
> > monitor $HOME non-recursively? Or maybe just one level down? That way
> > you would get most "typical" documents, but not descend into huge source
> > trees or whatnot.
> 
>   This is unwise, IMO. Every person I know, when have to deal with many
> documents, organise them in hierarchical directories. Often few levels
> deep. Limiting indexer only to toplevel and one level below top will
> effect in missing much of the documents.
>   Conversely, people who can live with all documents in single directory
> probably don't have many documents. For them, indexer isn't much help.

Eh? So you think its better to not index these directories at all then?
As that is the current default (only index xdg user dirs, recursively,
as per above quote).

Obviously if you have deep hierarchies with documents outside the xdg
user dirs you could add those to the list of indexed stuff.