On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 19:40 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:14 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > > On 18/08/09 17:11, Colin Walters wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jamie > > > McCracken<jamie.mccr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> we could use the Gtk Recent files stuff for this and that would work for > > >> ordinary users but not devs fetching source code or other command line > > >> stuff > > > > > > Unless it's really REALLY compelling and fast, I don't want my source > > > code in any kind of database, at least by default. We should leave > > > this to IDEs. > > > > > > The important files to index are word processor documents, graphic > > > files, PDFs, web browser downloads. Recent files could be used for > > > this with a bit of work (i know Firefox would need a patch at least). > > > > Yea, we share the same sentiments. > > > > I think I will just go ahead and do this then, it seems a common thought > > amongst developers. > > I guess we could indeed make a tracker-miner-gtk-recent > > Since last few months we have been working on cleanly separating the > tracker-miner-* from the tracker-store. The tracker-miner-fs is just one > such miner. The separating of store and miner is fully completed now. > > Adrien Bustany, a summer of code student, has been working on miners for > Facebook and Flickr this summer. We started discussing and integrating > his work this week. > > A miner like tracker-miner-gtk-recent wouldn't use inotify or any other > filemonitoring, but only the gtk-recent library. >
you would still need to somehow handle folder creation, file moves and file deletes none of which gtk-recent provides AFAIK jamie _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list