2011/9/20 Martyn Russell <mar...@lanedo.com>:
> On 20/09/11 16:54, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>
>> Congrats to the new release
>>
>> 2011/9/9 Martyn Russell<mar...@lanedo.com>:
>>>
>>> Where can I get it?
>>> ===================
>>>
>>>   http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.12/
>>>
>>
>> A few things I noticed:
>>
>> 1/ Starting tracker-needle or tracker-preferences from the command
>> line, I get a lot of debug messages like:
>> # tracker-needle
>> (tracker-needle:20965): Tracker-DEBUG: tracker-history.vala:26: Loading
>> history
>> (tracker-needle:20965): Tracker-DEBUG: tracker-history.vala:56:
>> Found 22 previous search histories
>> (tracker-needle:20965): Tracker-DEBUG: tracker-history.vala:58:   Done
>> (tracker-needle:20965): Tracker-DEBUG: tracker-view.vala:100: using
>> store:0x894b480
>> # tracker-preferences
>> (tracker-preferences:20937): Tracker-DEBUG:
>> tracker-preferences.vala:61: Getting current settings
>> (tracker-preferences:20937): Tracker-DEBUG:
>> tracker-preferences.vala:76: Trying to use UI
>>
>> file:'/home/michael/debian/build-area/tracker-0.12.1/src/tracker-preferences/tracker-preferences.ui'
>> (tracker-preferences:20937): Tracker-DEBUG:
>> tracker-preferences.vala:186: Got response id -7 (apply:-10, close:-7)
>
> Yea, that's intended to see what is going on, especially when there are
> queries involved. We can probably trim this but it doesn't harm at all to
> have these in here and it's more of a development aid than anything.

Could we hide these behind a --debug command line parameter, please?
It's a good  Unix practice to not show such debug messages by default:
remember, no news is good news!

>> Interesting here is also the fact that tracker-preferences tries to
>> load the ui file from the directory I built the package and not
>> /usr/share/tracker/tracker-preferences.ui
>
> Yes, that's also intended. When developing things locally, I don't want to
> keep using make install to use the changes in my .ui file.

Hm, I'm still a bit surprised by that, but ok.

>> 2/ My settings from 0.10.* are not migrated,
>>   Is this due to the switch to gsettings?
>> E.g. If I fire up tracker-preferences all the locations I configured
>> for indexing are reset.
>> This is imho a really import bug to fix.
>
> Indeed and it should work already. I would open a bug about this. There are
> specific migration functions implemented to do this properly and if it's
> broken we should fix it.

Ok, will file a bug about this, fwiw I tested 0.12.1

>> 3/ tracker-preferences shows under "Locations"
>> &DESKTOP
>> &DOCUMENTS
>> ...
>> &VIDEOS
>>
>> ie. no actual folders. Imho this doesn't make it really obvious which
>> folders are indexed.
>
> This is fixed in master and will be available in 0.12.2:
>
> http://blogs.gnome.org/mr/2011/09/17/improved-tracker-preferences-for-indexed-locations/

Very nice. Looks great!

Michael
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