Re: [Tracker] pausing/throttling/etc trackerd from command line?

[wayne <wayne jawnee org>]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 09:04 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> wayne wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:46 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> >> Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> >> > We're making it possible to pause the indexer using DBus, so using
> >> > dbus-send it'll be possible to do this (for example).
> >> > 
> >> > Martyn is (or has) implementing this. Added Martyn in CC.
> >> > 
> >>
> >> Philip is right, you can use DBus (or d-feet the application to use the 
> >> interfaces we expose). We also watch for changes to tracker.cfg so if 
> >> you change the throttle there, it should be picked up and changed in 
> >> real time without any restarts needed.
> >>
> > 
> > thanks for the info.  is there a place one can find the "spec" for the 
> > messages the Tracker listens for.  at least besides the source code?  
> > thanks for a very useful piece of software.
>
> The DBus interfaces are the best place to start for this I would say. If 
> you use d-feet:
>
>    https://fedorahosted.org/d-feet/
>
> You can see all the interfaces Tracker makes public and use the API that 
> way. In particular you are probably interested in the service:
>
>    org.freedesktop.Tracker
>
> and the interface:
>
>    /org/freedesktop/Tracker/
>
> using the method:
>
>    SetBoolOption
>
> If you use the string:
>
>    Pause
>
> You can control if the whole stack is paused or not.
> The tracker-applet also does this using the context menu in the 
> notification area.
thanks again.  i have installed d-feet.  unfortunately, the "Object Paths" for org.freedesktop.Tracker are empty.  other interfaces in d-feet have Object Paths (e.g. Gnome Do, HAL), though some like Tracker are empty.  i do not know enough about DBus to know why :)  thanks.
> For a list of all DBus interface signals and methods, see the 
> introspection XML files in:
>
>    data/dbus/*.xml