[Tracker] Mining completed notifications for removable devices

[Felipe Borges <felipe10borges gmail com>]

Hello Sam, sorry for the delayed answer.
It took me a little time to get familiar with Tracker structure and understand how

things work, also time has not been on my side.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com> wrote:

Hi all

I've been working on some code this week to add a 'DeviceComplete'
signal to the FS miner, which will emit a signal when the crawling of
a specific removable device has been complete.

I'll push the branch next week, after tidying it up a bit, but I
thought I'd mention it now - in part because I'm aware Felipe is doing
some work on removable devices as well and I want to make sure we stay
coordinated !

Thanks for the considerations, I'm sure your work is going to be very useful in 
combination with mine. 
Actually my work is *basically* making Tracker capable of receiving requests from
applications (via DBus) to index a given mount point.
 

The use case is simple; you want to update a UI with all the data a
removable device contains, as soon as it's available. It's possible to
do it gradually with GraphUpdated as the data appears, but in practice
this is going to hammer DBus and the UI code and it's nice to be able
to just query everything once it's available instead.

This definitely is going to help me on the second part of my goal on this GSoC, 
into the GNOME Documents side.

Cheers,
Felipe