I just wanted to say I like tracker because it's small and does a good job - thanks for it.
I have a request having to do with its thumbnails (I like having them, don't use gnome/kde/xfce so don't know what else would generate them so don't want to turn it off in tracker). The request is that: a) tracker use an app-local thumbnails dir, such as ~/.cache/tracker/thumbnails, which I have seen other apps keeping data local for themselves like this or b) allow a ./configure option to specify where they should go or c) during routine indexing if tracker discovers thumbnails that used to exist but are now gone it can regenerate them? Part of the reason for the request is because I see that if I delete a thumbnail, tracker will no longer display its associated hit in tracker search GUI. IOW if I delete everything in ~/.thumbnails and do a tracker search, 0 results are returned. But far more importantly (because I want to keep all of tracker's thumbnails), this is an issue because I use other apps which dump crap in ~/.thumbnails (gqview for example) meaning ~/.thumbnails ends up with thousands (and tens of thousands) of files totalling hundreds of megs. Because some of these thumbnails were generated once then many months (or years) later never accessed again, they're a HUGE waste of space; so I run a cron job cleaning ~/.thumbnails out every couple of weeks by +atime. But now that tracker is mixing its in with these other mostly useless thumbnails, I can't do that anymore. So that's why I'd like you to consider this (problem?) - if tracker's were separate from the other garbage in ~/.thumbnails (or would regenerate them when found missing) I could keep this otherwise wasted space in ~/.thumbnails free for other uses w/o impacting tracker. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
