Re: [Tracker] Suggestion for default directories

[Rainer M Krug <r m krug gmail com>]

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On 14/09/11 16:20, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 14/09/11 15:11, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > Hi
>
> Hi there,
>
> Relevant bug for this discussion:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600812
>
> > In addition to the directories in $HOME, it would be useful to
> > index as well man and info pages, and other documentation
> > directories.
>
> It's been discussed before and it's not straight forward.
> Logically, you would want to approach this by indexing it once and
> sharing for all users given it's not user specific data - a bit
> like applications aren't (though that's quite minimal usually).

True - haven't considered that, as I am the only user.

> The problem with that is, we have moved away from multiple
> databases for reasons of SQLite's WAL feature and ACID¹ with our
> DB.
>
> ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
>
> > At least a button on the right in the preferences gui to add
> > these directories would be useful.
>
> Something I have wanted to do for a long time is to make the XDG
> dirs actual buttons and not weird strings in the list :) So they're
> really just toggle buttons. One for documentation could also be
> useful I agree.

Would be really nice - but why do I need $PCTURES, if I include $HOME
as well? OK - if one of the other directories is not under $HOME, it
would make sense.

> > In addition, would it be possible to add the indexing of emails
> > in local directories (maildir and I have forgotten the other
> > format at the moment), and an identification of those as emails?
>
> That's a question for Philip.

Hopefully he has an idea?

Cheers,

Rainer

> > Cheers from a now happy tracker user,
>
> :)


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