On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote: > > we will definitely expand hal support for removable media > I have actually got a HAL patch which does this. There is one problem > with the implementation of our HAL patch and the tracker design - it > stores things based on file location. This is all well and good for a > lot of things, but when it comes to removable media really you can't > just count on the path. You really need to use the device ID which is > HAL can tell us about. > > What is needed as far as I understand it, is to improve the database > storage to include such information so we know if device foo mounted on > /media/sdcard is actually the same as device bar which may also be > mounted in the same place. I know Beagle stores URLs, not file paths. That would be one way to solve it. Then you could add a new scheme for removable media, for example, media://<device id>/<file path>. > This would greatly improve searching removable devices (after their > initial indexing of course). What I really want is to be able to search for removeable media that isn't currently connected, so that I can index my removable media, disconnect them and then easily find out what to reconnect once I need it. I'm not quite sure if that's obvious or not. _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
