Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.12.0 released (stable)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 20/09/11 16:54, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Congrats to the new release
>
> 2011/9/9 Martyn Russell<martyn lanedo com>:
> > Where can I get it?
> > ===================
> >
> >    http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.12/
>
> A few things I noticed:
>
> 1/ Starting tracker-needle or tracker-preferences from the command
> line, I get a lot of debug messages like:
> # tracker-needle
> (tracker-needle:20965): Tracker-DEBUG: tracker-history.vala:26: Loading history
> (tracker-needle:20965): Tracker-DEBUG: tracker-history.vala:56:
> Found 22 previous search histories
> (tracker-needle:20965): Tracker-DEBUG: tracker-history.vala:58:   Done
> (tracker-needle:20965): Tracker-DEBUG: tracker-view.vala:100: using
> store:0x894b480
> # tracker-preferences
> (tracker-preferences:20937): Tracker-DEBUG:
> tracker-preferences.vala:61: Getting current settings
> (tracker-preferences:20937): Tracker-DEBUG:
> tracker-preferences.vala:76: Trying to use UI
> file:'/home/michael/debian/build-area/tracker-0.12.1/src/tracker-preferences/tracker-preferences.ui'
> (tracker-preferences:20937): Tracker-DEBUG:
> tracker-preferences.vala:186: Got response id -7 (apply:-10, close:-7)

Yea, that's intended to see what is going on, especially when there are 
queries involved. We can probably trim this but it doesn't harm at all 
to have these in here and it's more of a development aid than anything.

> Interesting here is also the fact that tracker-preferences tries to
> load the ui file from the directory I built the package and not
> /usr/share/tracker/tracker-preferences.ui

Yes, that's also intended. When developing things locally, I don't want 
to keep using make install to use the changes in my .ui file.

> 2/ My settings from 0.10.* are not migrated,
>    Is this due to the switch to gsettings?
> E.g. If I fire up tracker-preferences all the locations I configured
> for indexing are reset.
> This is imho a really import bug to fix.

Indeed and it should work already. I would open a bug about this. There 
are specific migration functions implemented to do this properly and if 
it's broken we should fix it.

> 3/ tracker-preferences shows under "Locations"
> &DESKTOP
> &DOCUMENTS
> ...
> &VIDEOS
>
> ie. no actual folders. Imho this doesn't make it really obvious which
> folders are indexed.

This is fixed in master and will be available in 0.12.2:

http://blogs.gnome.org/mr/2011/09/17/improved-tracker-preferences-for-indexed-locations/

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.