Re: [Tracker] When to index files

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

> >   I'd say only when closed. I wonder in what case could be useful to
> > index a file that is still in use. It will be incomplete and useless for
> > the user.
>
> The case for the N900 was: You download a large file and you want 
> progress updates to know about it in some UI. Of course, the close() 
> doesn't come for a long time for large files and in that case, you may 
> want to know about the existence of the file before it was fully downloaded.
>
> We have since considered this situation a corner case and uncommon, for 
> applications that really care about that, they can use inotify 
> themselves instead of depend on Tracker. There isn't anything 
> interesting about the file before it is close()d in Tracker anyway as 
> you say Ivan (i.e. size, type, extracted metadata is either unset or 
> always changing).
>
> Additionally, the extra house keeping required for a cache and dealing 
> with changing files just adds extra maintenance for a limited set of use 
> cases.
>
> So I think we all agree, only close() really make sense.

Great then, let's do it only on close(). We'll need to wait for the GIO
patch to get reviewed and released, and then possibly tweak the
tracker-monitor internals a little bit, but that's always fun.

Cheers,

-- 
Aleksander