Re: [Tracker] Crawling-Interval 1

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi!,

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Edward
> The tracker-miner-fs process only does a re-crawl on startup. So
> although 'crawling-interval = 1' should cause it to recrawl every day,
> actually that'll only happen if you restart the process once a day
> too.
>
> That behaviour seems a bit confusing to me -- fixing tracker-miner-fs
> to honour crawling-interval even if it's not restarted would make
> sense; or at least improving the documentation of the
> crawling-interval option so that its limitations are clear).

You're right, I think too this is counterintuitive. Moreover with
servers that don't ever shutdown and laptops that most usually
suspend. It also sounds easy enough to implement, a
g_timeout_add_seconds() idle that calls
tracker_indexing_tree_notify_update() for each root.

Cheers,
  Carlos