Re: [Tracker] trackerd restart issue

[jerry tan <Jerry Tan Sun COM>]

Now, trackerd and tracker-applet will be started with gnome-session.
the default action for trackerd is to index home directory.
so when a normal user login into gnome, his home will be indexed by tracker,
it consume a lot of time, but it is not be user's owner idea.
he may run tracker-preference to change setting to reindex.
I suggest that we can start trackerd without any indexing or watch actions,
unless user change settings through tracker-preference tool.
that is reasonable for user, because he has made his decision to index
something,



> Hi,
>
> Ava reported several bugs which commonly need restart&reindex trackerd
> when changing setting through tracker-preferences, here is bug list:
>
> 503350 ??? Ignored File Patterns function do not work well
> 503376 ??? Cannot disable evolution "Enable Evolution email Indexing" in 
> "Emails" tab
> 503573 ??? check/uncheck "Index file contents" needs trackerd reindex
> 503725 ??? check/uncheck "Index mounted directories" needs trackerd
> reindex
> 503727 ??? check/uncheck "Index and watch my home directory" needs 
> trackerd reindex
> 503960 ??? Set "Additional paths to index and watch" needs trackerd
> reindex
> 503966 ??? Set "Crawled Directories" needs trackerd reindex
> 503977 ??? check/uncheck "Enable Thunderbird email indexing" needs 
> trackerd reindex
> 504000 ??? Set "Ignored File Patterns" needs trackerd reindex
>
> > From user experience, it is a nightmare when he only does minor change
> like enable/disable evolution. (The index record for his $HOME will be
> also removed, which is very waste).
>
> I'm starting thinking whether any better approach to resolve this
> problem. We need offer a mechanics to let trackerd update database to
> reflect keys changing.
>
> For example, when user disable Evo through t-p, choose "Yes" to restart
> tracerd when close t-p, things will happen with current trunk code.
>
> 1) A D-Bus message "SetBoolOption" will be sent out
> 2) trackerd gets it and tracker_dbus_method_set_bool_option will be
> invoked.
> 3) tracker->index_evolution_emails will be set to false;
>
> How about we add step 4) remove Evolution data from database
>
> Or we add a boolean property to called "IsShown", set then all to FALSE.
> And when trackerd is requested to search, only return those result with
> "IsShown" is TRUE (I stolen Jerry's idea here).
>
> I composed a page on about the keys for tracker
> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/tracker_configuration
>
> There are two columns "need restart" and "need reindex" need more
> discussion.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Halton.
>
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