Re: [Tracker] tracker-extract not being restarted

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 12/05/14 14:07, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> > Upon login. Otherwise, never IIRC.
>
> I see. From the .desktop file, right? But then, how are extraction
> requests passed to tracker-extract? Not via DBUS? Because if they
> were passed via DBUS, DBUS could/should start it as necessary. So I'm
> missing some architectural point somewhere, but where? :)

We use nie:data-source <foo> and if it's unset, we know we've only done 
the first pass index on the file system (i.e. basic file data).

The extractor then does a second pass and adds things like genre, 
duration, image orientation, etc.

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Regards,
Martyn

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