On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 19:10 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: <snip> > We would gladly ONLY index data that's of interest to the user/desktop > applications if you could come up with heuristics for that. I touched on > that somewhat in my response earlier. Also, having superfluous coverage > is better than wondering why a file is not indexed; we get more reports > of the former generally. > > Perhaps we do approach this the wrong way (detecting files > created/updated instead of asking apps to report files they're > interested in), but one had to come before the other and you don't get > community support/adoption without a working solution first.
We're going off on a tangent, and I'm not sure I have a good answer for this. Applications telling you which types of file they want to have the metadata indexed for might be one way. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list