Re: [Tracker] Review request : Bridge manager subsystem

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 18/08/09 13:19, Ivan Frade wrote:
>     When people log in, they are launched anyway based on the desktop
>     file configuration. That's currently how tracker-store and
>     tracker-miner-fs work.
>
>
>   The .desktop files to start the miners are system-wide
> ($prefix/dbus-1/services/ or something similar), but the user can decide
> in his session what to enable or not (e.g. the user can disable the RSS
> miner). When the user logs in... how does the session know whether a
> miner should be started?

Well the desktop files go in either:

  $prefix/share/gnome/autostart/
  /etc/xdg/autostart/
  $HOME/.config/autostart/

And the process is started depending on this value in the desktop file:

  X-GNOME-autostart-enabled = {True|False}

>   Now i think that maybe it is very easy: start all providers, and in
> the configuration files we can have a "Enabled" option. If it is false,
> the miner will exit. It doesn't sound good for the gnome-session
> starting time, but it is trivial to implement.

That's currently how we do most things right now. I also don't think any 
miners are going to install a desktop file with auto start set to False. 
It doesn't really make much sense. No one else is going to start them, 
at least not at the moment.

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Regards,
Martyn