Peter Tribble wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Jerry Tan <Jerry.Tan at sun.com> wrote: > >> Peter Tribble wrote: >> >>>> Meta Tracker searches files' contents and meta data. >>>> >>> Does it follow symbolic links? >>> >> yes, tracker will index it. >> > > Ouch. An accidental symlink and I try and index several hundred > million files :-( > > I hope this can be configured. > > OK, I will add this feature in tracker. >>>> Tracker daemon will be started with gnome-session. >>>> User can run gnome-session-properties to enable/disable it. >>>> >>> Is it enabled or disabled by default? >>> >> The community's version (tarball version 0.6.6 ) enable it by default. >> So when gnome-session start, trackerd will be started . >> we can disable it in sun's pkg if needed. >> > > Again, I hope this can be configured. > Yes. it could be configured. > And in both cases, I hope it can be configured globally by an administrator. > > (It's the combinations of the two that will be absolutely lethal.) > > Tracker's preference is written in one plain text file.
Tracker community is thinking to rewrite this part of code using gconf API. by this, it will be much easier for administrator to configure globally, since APOC has gconf adaptor already.
