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

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>]

2011/9/20 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.

Could we hide these behind a --debug command line parameter, please?
It's a good  Unix practice to not show such debug messages by default:
remember, no news is good news!

> > 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.

Hm, I'm still a bit surprised by that, but ok.

> > 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.

Ok, will file a bug about this, fwiw I tested 0.12.1

> > 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/

Very nice. Looks great!

Michael
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