Re: [Tracker] work items for 0.6.5

[Erlend Davidson <erlend davidson gmail com>]

Halton Huo wrote:
> I will take Chinese New Year leave until Feb. 17. If time is allowed, 
> I can do 1) and 3).
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:05 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
>   
> > There are a few things that need doing before for 0.6.5 so if any of you
> > has time to spare (i have little) so feel free to volunteer:
> >
> > 1) add an optional auto-pause feature to tracker-applet which pauses
> > trackerd for a few secs whenever a keyboard or mouse event is detected
> > (use gdk to listen to X event queue for this just like screensavers
> > do). 
> >
> > this feature would prevent trackerd from slowing down the computer
> > whenever the user is actively using the machine
> >     
> Seems good feature. One question is, if user want to do something and
> trackerd index at the same time, which means he does not take the
> slowing down, can we offer a choice?

Why is this being implemented in tracker applet?  That will only benefit 
the gnome users, and tracker is meant to be cross-desktop.

Could tracker applet be implemented as a system tray icon?

Erlend