Re: [Tracker] status of 0.6.90?

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

nope - that would require gconf support. Then again waiting for
gtksettings/dconf might be better?

in any event it would be easy to add different compile time backends as
the config is now nicely abstracted

jamie

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 04:41 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/10/8 Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd compnerd org>:
> > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008, Martyn Russell wrote:
> >
> > > > > * tracker-preferences work (hopefully let it use tracker-config)
> > > >
> > > > What exactly needs to be done for this?
> > >
> > > The TrackerConfig API needs implementing instead of the
> > > TrackerConfiguration API.
> >
> > Sure, I can try to get around to do that in a few days.
> >
> > > > I have a stale change sitting around (I
> > > > should bring that up to date again) that should vastly simplify
> > > > tracker-preferences.
> > >
> > > Yes please!
> > >
> > > > As for using tracker-config, Im really not a fan of tracker-config and would
> > > > prefer tracker-configuration.
> > >
> > > Can I ask why?
> >
> > The TrackerConfiguration API is far easier to maintain.  Rather than having
> > functions for every single option, its a simple, generic API.
>
> While we are talking about configuration, I wanted to add some ideas
> and requests that were brought to me by Debian users.
>
> They are looking for a way to set tracker options system wide (via
> /etc/xdg/) and possibly a way to lock down certain options.
>
> Would something like this be possible with the current architecture?
>
> Michael