I think I have to agree with Arie here. I would only keep indexing dirs that are explicitly marked as index dirs. However, the problem here is that the only way a dir can be marked as explicitly indexed is if its parent folder is not indexed. That is just the way the strigi service config works. Thus, a user cannot mark specific folders as "indexed in any case". Well, except if we add that to the UI. :P
Cheers, Sebastian On 05/06/2010 01:56 PM, Arie Peterson wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010 16:45:19 +0530, Vishesh Handa <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I think it's kinda intuitive that if a folder is being indexed and one > of >> it's subfolders, which is also being indexed, is moved somewhere. The >> subfolder should still be indexed. Doesn't that seem normal? > > If the subfolder was explicitly marked by the user as "to be indexed", > then yes, I agree. > > If, on the other hand, it was being indexed only because it was a > subfolder of an indexed folder, then I'm not so sure. The only reason the > subfolder was indexed in the first place, was its location. If its location > changes, why still index it? > > Well, to be honest, there are of course situations where this behaviour is > useful. But I don't think it is wanted in all situations. > > For example, it means that if you accidentally place a folder 'S' in an > indexed folder, it becomes "tagged"; if you want to place 'S' somewhere > else, so it won't be indexed, you either have to > 1) move all its files to a new dir, which is not "tagged"; if 'S' has > subfolders, then it's not enough to simply move over all its contents, > because these subdirs will also be "tagged" — you'll have to recreate the > whole directory structure; or > 2) use some explicit interface to nepomuk/strigi to convince them to > "untag" 'S' (remove it from the indexed folders list). > > I guess the preferred option would be 2). > >> Just to be clear, this patch would only add directories to the indexed >> folders list if they were previously being indexed. It does not track >> indexed files. > > OK. I guess this asymmetry between files and folders makes it a bit > unintuitive for me. > > > Regards, > > Arie > > _______________________________________________ > Nepomuk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk _______________________________________________ Nepomuk mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk
