[ANNOUNCE] Tracker 0.6.5

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

Im pleased to announce a new version of tracker 

downloads:

http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.6.5.tar.gz
http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.6.5.tar.bz2


Changes:


Applet
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	* Removed popup window and replaced with tooltip displaying status and
progress

	* New Applet preferences to turn off animation/hide icon/set smart
pause 

	* Smart pause feature which can auto pause the tracker daemon whenever
the user presses a key or moves the mouse. This makes indexing
completely non-intrusive when computer is in use by user and no
slowdowns should be evident at all. Default setting is to auto pause the
merge state only which provides a nice balance between index speed and
non-intrusiveness (can be set to pause all indexing if desired or turned
off for maximum index speed)

	* annoying merge messages have now been removed

	* Reindex option added

	* About box added	

	* now hidden if indexing is disabled
	
	* bugs with constant animation fixed

	* animation rate slowed right down so as to be less annoying



Tracker daemon
===============


	* temporary blacklisting of frequently changing files (they are indexed
after one hour or on next restart of tracker daemon). prevents constant
indexing from downloads and torrents

	* more blacklisting of common tmp formats and vmware files

	* memory leak fixes

	* removed cpu heavy corruption scan which can last long time and occurs
on battery too at startup when tracker daemon was not previously shut
down properly. Instead we now use bigger transactions with fsync on to
prevent corruption in the first place (only slightly more disk IO is
used during indexing as a result)

	* fixed crashers

	* Fixed dbus shutdown/reindex call




Tracker Preferences
=======================

	* Added apply button (settings are no longer instant apply)

	* Improved restart/reindex handling

	* Fixed closure issues of dialog




What is it?

Tracker is a combination desktop search and metadata database providing
the ability to tag all your files and emails as well as searching for
them.

jamie.




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