On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 23:44 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > On 16/04/2008, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/4/15, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 15/04/2008, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 008/4/11, Parker Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'd like to use tracker to monitor only pdf's and > postscript files. Is > > this possible? > > > > > > > > At the moment, I ignore a number of extensions *.doc > *.html *.png etc, > > but the ignore list is getting too long and still too many > files are > > getting tracked. > > > > > > > > > I think this should be doable: > > > We should not only have a blacklist of file extenstions, > but also a > > whitelist. > > > Then add * in the blacklist and *.pdf and *.ps to the > whitelist. The > > > whitelist should have a higher priority then the > blacklist. I'd say > > > (without looking at the code), that this could be fixed > easily. > > > > Or go old-school and just make a list of regexps..? Then > one could simply > > write a not-pdf-or-ps blacklist regexp. > > > > > Would be an option. But do you think this would be intuitive > for the > average user? > > Was that a rhetorical question? Heck, no! I bet that less than 0.1% of > the Tracker users know regexps :-) > > Anyways, Beagle does in fact seem to support it. Or maybe it is just > globbing.
Im not sure we need white listing as such what would be sensible is to enable/disable indexing by service category (Ie turn on or off music/video/Documents/text/dev file indexing) hopefully that coarse grain approach will suffice and still be easy for users jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
