Re: [Tracker] Suggestion for default directories

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 14/09/11 15:26, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > 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.

We index $HOME non-recursively currently. We then do the XDG dirs 
recursively after that. Which makes sense if you think about it because 
people often store crap in other directories and important things like 
Music, Images, Videos, etc in the XDG dirs (unless they have some other 
legacy system in place) - either way if users don't care about where so 
much as a symbol (i.e. my Documents directory) then it is much better 
for us and them.

> > > 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?

He's our email guru :)

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.