Re: [Tracker] Why Tracker & Tracker preferences two different tools?

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 03:45 +0530, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
>       First of all congratulations on Tracker 0.6.0 & it looks great.
> One thing though on Ubuntu/Xubuntu gutsy we have 2 different tools on
> the GUI mode, namely :-
>
> tracker-search-tool and tracker-preferences , While on Ubuntu the tool
> is supposed to be in Applications > Accessories (atleast in xubuntu it
> is, haven't been able to log into Ubuntu for few days due to some bug)
> while the preferences part in System > preferences. (oddly named as
> Indexing Preferences with a reddish looking icon), anyways the moot
> question is why the tool is in this two different places. Is this by
> design or what? To my mind it would have been better to have Tracker
> having multiple tabs or something like that.  Maybe have a look at
> deluge-torrent, a GNOME/GTK torrent client , esp. how they did the
> Edit > Preferences thing .
>
> All in all, I do think it would have been better to have preferences
> integrated with the search-feature. If there were discussions about it
> before from which the discussion was taken then point me towards
> there.


tracker-prefs applies to the daemon only

there are no settings there that apply to tst

thats why they are separate