Re: [Tracker] From the client side

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 15:26 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2008/11/21 Marko Anastasov <marko anastasov gmail com>:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > A few questions:
> >
> > In practice, pulling every single document's (whatever type) metadata
> > from Tracker over D-Bus is slow. For example it takes 10+s on my 2 yr
> > old machine to gather information for about ~1000 documents.
> > How do you see this problem?
>
> Why is it that you need to do that? I mean in practice one should
> never keep more than a "sliding window + cache" in memory on the
> client side. Fx. the 15 visible documents + 30 backwards and forwards
> for fast scrolling.

I agree although widget support for this might be limited or might
require extensive hacks

in near future I hope to have a direct access client to trackers sqlite
db to avoid dbus overhead

jamie