Martyn Russell <martyn-bhgbangmcjvqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org> writes: >> Ideally, tracker should e.g. detect if a file has just been renamed and >> migrate the existing metadata. > > We have been discussing this during the code camp. We have a proposed > solution in mind to fix this and will be looking at that in the coming > weeks. > [...] > > At the moment yes. Also, there is some question as to how persistent > the metadata (not added by Tracker but by 3rd parties) should be and > how to manage out of date or no longer needed data. > > Presumably if the file is moved to another directory we see a MOVE > event and we should deal with that correctly. If we see events for the > file being deleted and added later to another directory (i.e. we have > no relationship between the two) then we have to assume the file is > deleted and in that case it invariably makes sense to remove all > metadata related to that. Files are generally a different case to > other resources.
It seems that the best course of action for me right now is to wait until there's support for renaming files and at least a rough consensus about the persistence 3rd party metadata, right? Since all my concerns are centered about the persistance of my metadata, any solution I come up with right now would probably be either in conflict or obsoleted in the (near?) future... Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
