Re: [Tracker] Needle issues

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 13/11/10 20:56, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:45, Martyn Russell<martyn lanedo com>  wrote:
> > > * takes a long time to load when search terms yields multiple results;
> > > it becomes sluggish that way, almost unresponsive; maybe add Paging
> > > for the results?
> >
> > We do use paging kind of :)
> >
> > The paging should be done better, right now we only get the first n results
> > (1000 I think). I need to change the way we draw the results so we only get
> > the ones we see initially and preload the others in the background. Will
> > take some effort though.
>
> I was thinking of that too, as the most elegant solution, but I agree
> on the effort part. I was curious if GTK+ actually makes it easy?

Actually, yes. I have done it before. What makes it hard or the "effort" 
for me, is figuring out how to do it in Vala actually :)

> > > * does not display results for PDF docs
> >
> > What all PDF documents? Works fine here! Are you sure you have support
> > compiled for tracker-extract?
>
> TST works fine. I'll test again in future.

OK.

> > Also, there is now a tracker-needle component in Bugzilla and I have rebased
> > against master tonight.
>
> Will use that, thanks.
>
> Thanks for the other fixes.
>
> Oh, and I really miss Categories. Are you sure it's not the best idea
> for Needle? There's a lotta times when I only wanna see PDF or HTML
> results, for example.

Actually, I think it could be added without much work, question is where 
and how. Perhaps using the file and icon views make sense with an 
"ALL|PDF|Folders|Music|..." combo box.

The issue with PDF/HTML is they're specific mime types and right now we 
show specific classes (like documents) which cover more than just PDF.

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Regards,
Martyn