Re: [Tracker] GUI option to reset Tracker slashed

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 23/09/09 14:32, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 15:11, Martyn Russell<martyn lanedo com>  wrote:
> > On 23/09/09 13:38, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I see the option to reset the daemon has been removed from the applet.
> > > I find it handy at times especially when testing, as opposed to going
> > > for CLI.
> >
> > By reset do you mean tracker-processes -r?
>
> No, a simple reset, not removal of DB's.
>
> tracker-processes can also stop tracker but in order to start it again
> I have to run both tracker-store and tracker-miner-fs which is
> awkward. How do you guys do it (other than logging out, which is even
> more awkward).

I see. We could add an option, but it shouldn't be necessary. It 
probably makes sense for 0.7. at least.

> > This shouldn't be necessary in the first place.
> > We have tried to simplify the applet more. You shouldn't need to restart
> > anything in Tracker, it should all just work.
>
> Ideally, yeah. But things happen. I expect there'll be an outcry if
> you guys don't make it easy for layman to reset the thing if some part
> of Tracker gets stuck/explodes somewhere.

:)

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Regards,
Martyn