Re: [Tracker] System tray icon and monitor

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

John Stowers wrote:
> > It sounds good but cant of course comment til I get it working :)
> >
> > I have added to cvs in python/applet
>
> It worked fine for me in edgy just by running it. Needs python dbus
> bindings installed, and must be run from the dir with the svg icon in
> it

I did all that but I it just turns my cursor into a cross when I run it???

> Would there be any value / interest in having something like this in
> trackerd? (written in C, and conditionally compiled in of course)

It should ideally be integrated into a c based config applet which can 
activate tracker if its not running.

> I often open a terminal with tail --follow tracker.log to see whats 
> happening.
>
> The applet could display an icon depending on the daemons status
> * Flushing data
> * Indexing / Extracting metadata
> * Sleeping
> And perhaps a % complete indicator (23 / 234 files indexed (xx%)) or 
> something

last one of those could be tricky as we are recursively indexing so wont 
necessary have the total. But the rest are easy to implement in dbus


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