Re: [Tracker] status of 0.6.90?

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/10/3 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>:
> > Hi,

Hi Michael,

> > It's been quite a while since 0.6.6 and wonder what's still left
> > before releasing, besides:
> > * TST searches killing trackerd and tracker-indexer
>
> FWIW, I can reproduce this bug. Imo this is the most important
> showstopper for me atm.
>
> > * memory leak in tracker-indexer

Hmm, we tried to reduce this at the hackfest, I don't think it leaks any
more. I just think it keeps a lot of things in memory which perhaps it
doesn't need to. There are plans to fix this which Jamie and I spoke
about at the hackfest (which is #1 in his mail that follows).

> > * tracker-preferences work (hopefully let it use tracker-config)
>
> In addition, I noticed that tracker-preferences tries to respawn
> /usr/bin/trackerd, but the trackerd binary is now in libexecdir.

These are all good to know. We have a lot on our plate right now. I am
not sure when these will get done. We are focusing mainly on the actual
engine than any of the clients so much right now. Patches for this would
be very welcome.

> Other points:
> * config file of tracker-applet is ~/.config/trackertracker-applet.cfg
> * duplicated code in src/libtracker-common/tracker-config(uration).[ch]
> * API/ABI break in libtracker-gtk

Are you referring to the missing:

  tracker_vfs_format_file_size_for_display()

Because I checked this today and it isn't in the last release. So it
really depends on if you mean we should be API compatible with 0.6.x or
the last release?

> * The frequency of notifications via tracker-applet has increased a
> lot. I constantly get
> notifications that tracker has finished indexing, whenever a file
> changes in my home dir.

Yea this annoys me too. I need to fix that.

> IIRC in 0.6.6 I only got this notification after the initial indexing run.

There is a difference in the signalling. We get the "Finished" signal
when the indexer finishes indexing whatever it is indexing. If new
content is indexed, we then know about it and know when it is finished.

We need to think about when to show this notification.  We could show it
only on the first index, or we could show it only when indexing a lot of
files (say > 100) || the first time.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn