Re: [Tracker] work items for 0.6.5

[Halton Huo <Halton Huo Sun COM>]

Jamie,

For 1), any idea to get all events for all windows? I'm trying to use
gdk_window_add_filter (NULL, (GdkFilterFunc)xevent_filter, main_icon),
seems only events for the icon are be accepted. 

Any clue?

Halton.

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 18:41 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:14 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > Il giorno ven, 01/02/2008 alle 22.32 +0800, Halton Huo ha scritto:
> > > 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?
> >
> > Are we sure this is a good idea?
> >
> > I mean, it could be interesting slow down trackerd if I'm writing and I
> > want a responsive OO.o Writer UI, or I'm watching a movie and I don't
> > want to miss a frame, but pause trackerd at any mouse/keyboard gesture
> > seems too much...
> >
> > Usually, when I'm in front of my PC, I move the mouse or hit the
> > keyboard all the time: do this mean that my files will never indexed? 
> >
> > OK, I'm exaggerating, but I hope this pause feature will not applied to
> > first index creation, or will be a pain...
>
> maybe just do it during index merge as thats the only point that hits
> I/O hard
>
> In any event we need to make sure we dont slow the computer down so
> thats its noticeable as I had a few grumbles from ubuntu devs 
>
> jamie