Re: [Tracker] Enhancement proposal: Automatic reindexing when adding new extractors

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 09/02/10 21:31, Adrien Bustany wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi all,

I generally like most the proposals, but I do have one suggestion.  That 
being that we don't store a desktop file at all :) but simply link to a 
desktop file instead. Keeping mime types in two places for applications 
feels like duplication to me. I would much rather have something like this:

[Extractor]
DesktopFile=/path/to/desktop/file.desktop
ShouldReindex={1|0}

This way we can simply use:

  - Tracker internals to get information about the desktop file
    information
  - Simple file lookups to get desktop file information that already
    exists.

The ShouldReindex is a simple toggle to know if we need to start a 
reindex or not. You could possibly change this to ShouldIndex=mimes so 
you only handle particular mimes? (not sure if that makes sense though).

You might want a name for the extractor which is not the same as the 
name in the desktop file it points to, but generally I wouldn't think 
that's necessary.

The MD5SUM idea isn't bad but I don't think we really need version in 
here do we? I am not apposed to it, it just feels like more data to keep 
up to date and worry about.

If we agree to this proposal, then we can also consider using one file 
with a group for each extractor with the above keys to avoid the extra 
files/etc.

Thoughts?

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Regards,
Martyn