Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] fixing some bad misbehavior

["Marcus Fritzsch" <fritschy googlemail com>]

On 7/25/07, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 00:52 +0200, Marcus Fritzsch wrote:
> > On 7/25/07, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > ok mod it so that it uses Home if no watch dirs are set
> >
> > But that's as it is now ;) [src/trackerd/trackerd.c near line 1933]
> >
>
> ok - just fix up the previous issue then

The patch is some mails above - not the first one though!



About the arguments: I'll try again ;)

When WatchDirectoryRoots is empty, i.e. no directories listed,
trackerd will automatically watch and index $HOME. If on the other
hand WatchDirectoryRoots is not empty, i.e. some dirs somewhere deep
in the / shall be watched, trackerd will _not_ watch and/or index
$HOME when not explicitly in the list.

Additionally, when trackerd finds no configuration, a default config
is created with $HOME by default watched, as does tracker-preferences.

What I want to make clear; if we change this, no new users will have a
different experience in starting up trackerd whatsoever. If however
someone relies on the behavior of watching and indexing $HOME even
with WatchDirectoryRoots is empty (again, which is not the case with a
default config), these users are relying on a bug[1] ;).

I came up with this issue because I wanted to index a document tree,
and not my home - which is a perfectly valid use case for a highly
configurable and flexible desktop indexer :).

So, I hope you'll not gonna throw me out of here ;).

Kind regards, Marcus

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454068