Re: [Tracker] Tracker daemon/indexer responsibilities

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:17 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:

> > the desktop/ini file will contain fields for :
> >
> > directories to watch
> > recursive directories to watch
> > ignore directories regex
> > files to index regex
> > files to ignore regex
> > index executable
> > index module name
> > file mime types
> > service name
> >
> > we may also need a user config file for each module/executable which the
> > index content will use
> >
> > enabled
> > mod specific settings
>
> Hmm, as we speak we are writing a GKeyFile type approach (similar to a
> .desktop file) outside of the .desktop file for modules.

great!


> > From what you have listed there are are you talking about extending the
> desktop file format for Tracker?
>
> Where you have "regex" there, do you mean using the GPatternSpec API
> which we currently do or using a real regex? (Possibly the using GRegex)

ïGPatternSpec would be ok for now. I dont know if there will be a
requirement for regex in the future


> My feeling at this point (so we can get on) is to just write the code to
> get this information from another place (we have in mind
> $prefix/share/tracker/modules) and use that for now, then perhaps we can
> move over to .desktop files (with the GKeyFile the move should be faily
> quick given the API won't change we will just point the code at
> different files).


thats fine

jamie