Michael Biebl wrote: > 2007/12/12, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, >> >> When I was merging Ubuntu's tracker from Debian's, I thought about the patch >> which disables trackerd in KDE. I thought that shouldn't happen, as if a KDE >> user installs tracker he will expect tracker to work out of the box. >> >> I discussed it with Sebastien Bacher and he agreed with me that it wasn't >> optimal. But he explained to me (and I agree with it) that there shouldn't be >> more than one indexer running at the same time, so it's a workaround for [1]. >> But as Michael Biebl explains in [2] with his user case, this is not the best >> thing to do. But we need to do something. You don't want to have tracker, >> strigi, beagle... running at the same time. >> >> So I was wondering whether the XESAM spec specifies some way to solve this, >> or >> at least a way for indexers to say they are indexing. If the first is done, >> that >> would be great. However if it isn't but the second option is implemented, >> tracker could check whether there are other indexers running, and if so, stop >> running. > > I guess XESAM will define a D-Bus API (similar to > org.freedesktop.PowerManagement) > and the first indexer that grabs this interface on startup will server > requests. > Other indexers will simply exit if they notice that the interface is taken.
Great. That sounds perfect. I'll wait for tracker 0.7 to see it! Take care, Emilio > > Cheers, > Michael >
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