Re: [Tracker] Feature request: pause indexing from preferences dialog

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 23/09/11 11:47, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> Hi

Hi,

> Just an idea - it would be quite nice to have next to the "Indexing
> speed" slider in the preferences dialogue box, a toggle switch to
> pause indexing. This would make it, after the discontinuation of the
> indicator applet, much easier to pause indexing. Also, an option
> "pause indexing for X minutes" would be quite useful.

We had/have that, it is the "throttle" configuration. I have removed it 
in the SCHED_IDLE branch which should make it to master/0.12.3 because 
it's not as effective as the new sched_setsched() call we use with the 
new options I added. This is what it looks like:

http://www.lanedo.com/~martyn/images/tracker-preferences-with-sched-idle2.png

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.