Re: [Tracker] [Patch] Enable Hidden File Indexing

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Bjoern Gruening wrote:
> Hi,
>
> attached is a small patch to enable the indexing of hidden files,
> optinally. I'm not sure that feature is useful, it was mostly an
> experiment. 
> I'd like to know what you think about it.

I dont like the idea of indexing hidden files. Files that are important 
enough to be indexed should not be hidden nor shold they be shown in a 
search gui (kinda defeats the purpose of being hidden)

Lets take an mbox file as an example. Most email programs keep their 
mbox files in hidden files/folders.

If tracker were to index this it would treat it as a big whopping text 
file and attempt to index it as a whole.

And whenever a new email came, it would do the same over. Im just scared 
that this sort of behaviour would cause performance problems in tracker 
so I would prefer to keep it out

On the other hand tracker will be indexing services by lookig at 
specific data files in hidden files and I believe that is the right way

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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