Re: [Tracker] [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Tracker 0.6.5]

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:15 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/2/28, Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>:
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> >  From: Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack gmail com>
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> >  To: gnome-announce-list <gnome-announce-list gnome org>
> >  Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Tracker 0.6.5
>
> First of all, congrats to the new release.
> But I also have a few critical remarks:
>
> Adding new translatable strings a few hours before release is not nice
> to our translators. This has happened before and also with 0.6.5 (see
> the tracker-applet preferences dialog)

well ubuntu needs to check tracker is ok and is not a hog before keeping
it in for the LTS hardy

I did not want to delay much further


> The tracker-applet preferences dialog looks a bit odd (e.g. the
> centered close button, no close button in the menu decoration etc.)
> Could someone with HIG experience please take a look at it.

patches welcome for this


> There is a more fundamental problem with the tracker-applet
> preferences dialog though.
> As soon as you check the visibility button, the applet is gone. As the
> only option to reach the configuration dialog is via the context menu
> of the applet, the user will have real difficulties now (he either has
> to generate new files to make tracker-applet show up or edit
> .config/tracker/tracker-applet.cfg manually. Neither of these options
> is acceptable imho).

people who turn it off are unlikely to want it back IMO

perhaps add a hotkey to toggle this?


> We had this discussed briefly before, but what happened to the idea to
> merge those settings into tracker-preferences?

too much work - it would involve adding dbus methods to tell the applet
stuff has changed. When glib has a decent config system with
notifications then we can do it easily

> I also noticed, that the visibility option is reset, each time
> trackerd is restarted. bug or feature?

should not be reset

I can roll out a 0.6.6 for translatable strings this weekend + any other
bugs that pop up in the next few days


> Cheers,
> Michael