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

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 11/02/10 14:19, Adrien Bustany wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:03:17 +0100, Martyn Russell<martyn lanedo com>
> wrote:
> > On 09/02/10 21:31, Adrien Bustany wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > Hi all,

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

> > 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}
> I didn't get what desktop file do you want to link to ?

Well, most applications have their own desktop file which includes a 
list of mime types they support. So why not use that?

> > 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).
> It probably makes sense for an extractor that handles several types (eg.
> the gstreamer one)

Several mime types? Not sure I follow your point here?

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Regards,
Martyn