Michael Biebl wrote: > 2008/1/3, Jeff Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Jan 2, 2008 7:30 PM, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 2008/1/3, Jeff Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> A few days ago while staring at ps and tracker was grinding my hard >>>> drive, it occurred to me, "Wouldn't it be nice if trackerd showed its >>>> status in ps / top?". >>> [..] >>> >>> Are such hacks really necessary? I mean, you can easily query >>> trackerd's status via tracker-status and also the D-Bus interface. >> Well on systems that support it via prctl or setproctitle, I don't see how >> it is a hack? It is *really* nice to look at top and see: trackerd >> (Indexing). >> It isn't like I'm saying we should switch tracker to lucene and I'm even >> offering to do the coding. If you are dead set against it please say so >> again. I'd rather work on a project that accepts small contributions. >> > > Sorry, I didn't want to discourage you, on the contrary. Helping hands > are always welcome! > I was just wondering about the usefulness of this patch, now that we > have something like tracker-applet. > Let's wait what jamie has to say. In the end he decides if this patch > will be accepted or not. > > Cheers, > Michael > Alright, we'll wait until Jaime says something. tracker-applet is nice, but not something I'll put on my panel when killall -SIGSTOP trackerd does the same thing functionality wise :)
In the spirit of opensource, I had an itch and decided to scratch it. If it would be useful to more people then great. Also, I could modify it to only use setproctitle(3) or prctl(2) in places they are available. --- Jeff Schroeder _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
