Re: [Tracker] a little bit of feedback

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 11/12/09 10:28, Tomi N/A wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm stuck with the 0.6 branch until I decide to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10
> (which, I assume, uses 0.7...).

Nope. You will have to check it out and build it yourself unfortunately.

> > > I understand that tracker supports a limited set of file types, but I
> > > don't see a reason for it to not at least index the full path to a
> > > file, including it's name, regardless of the type.

It always indexes basic file information like that. Just not embedded 
metadata for unknown file types.

> > > What I see in the preferences GUI is that if I decline to restart the
> > > indexer, the "index mounted disks" property is silently reset to
> > > "true".
> >
> > Hmm. I thought that was also fixed. What version of tracker are you using?
>
> 0.6

Hmm, I really advise you to try 0.7. ;)

> > Out of curiosity, have you thought about trying 0.7? It is infinitely
> > better.
>
> I would very much like to use the latest and greatest, but I
> appreciate the stability I get from not customizing my Ubuntu machines
> any more than absolutely necessary...so hopefully, Ubuntu 9.10 uses
> tracker 0.7 and I might upgrade in the near future, but until then,
> I'll have to make do with 0.6 until then.

OK.

You should know, tracker 0.7 has been quite stable for some time. We are 
planning on making stable releases after xmas.

> There are a couple of additional problems I'd like to mention:
>
> #5
> Asking tracker to pause indexing (to free the CPU for other tasks)
> seems to not have any effect: trackerd still takes 99% of the CPU.

If you're using any version < 0.6.95 then I would suggest you try to 
upgrade. If it still happens with that version, then you can't do any 
worse by upgrading to 0.7 ;)

> #6
> Trackerd prevents suspend to RAM (probably hibernation, as well, but I
> haven't tested that one). Suspend has a 20s window to stop all
> processes to be able to suspend: while it isn't the only culprit, 90%
> of the time it's the trackerd process that prevents suspend.

Oh really, that's interesting. We should check that doesn't happen in 
0.7 too then.

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Regards,
Martyn