On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:14 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote: > Il giorno ven, 01/02/2008 alle 22.32 +0800, Halton Huo ha scritto: > > I will take Chinese New Year leave until Feb. 17. If time is allowed, > > I can do 1) and 3). > > > > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:05 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > > There are a few things that need doing before for 0.6.5 so if any of you > > > has time to spare (i have little) so feel free to volunteer: > > > > > > 1) add an optional auto-pause feature to tracker-applet which pauses > > > trackerd for a few secs whenever a keyboard or mouse event is detected > > > (use gdk to listen to X event queue for this just like screensavers > > > do). > > > > > > this feature would prevent trackerd from slowing down the computer > > > whenever the user is actively using the machine > > Seems good feature. One question is, if user want to do something and > > trackerd index at the same time, which means he does not take the > > slowing down, can we offer a choice? > > Are we sure this is a good idea? > > I mean, it could be interesting slow down trackerd if I'm writing and I > want a responsive OO.o Writer UI, or I'm watching a movie and I don't > want to miss a frame, but pause trackerd at any mouse/keyboard gesture > seems too much... > > Usually, when I'm in front of my PC, I move the mouse or hit the > keyboard all the time: do this mean that my files will never indexed? > > OK, I'm exaggerating, but I hope this pause feature will not applied to > first index creation, or will be a pain... >
maybe just do it during index merge as thats the only point that hits I/O hard In any event we need to make sure we dont slow the computer down so thats its noticeable as I had a few grumbles from ubuntu devs jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
