Hi all I've been working on some code this week to add a 'DeviceComplete' signal to the FS miner, which will emit a signal when the crawling of a specific removable device has been complete.
I'll push the branch next week, after tidying it up a bit, but I thought I'd mention it now - in part because I'm aware Felipe is doing some work on removable devices as well and I want to make sure we stay coordinated ! The use case is simple; you want to update a UI with all the data a removable device contains, as soon as it's available. It's possible to do it gradually with GraphUpdated as the data appears, but in practice this is going to hammer DBus and the UI code and it's nice to be able to just query everything once it's available instead. I've seen people connecting to Miner.Progress to get the status of USB crawling, and I don't think I need to explain why this is so nasty. Internally, it's implemented by associating each GFile with its mount, and keeping a counter on the mount of how many files have been processed. It might not sound nice but it's working pretty well in practice :) Associating the mount with the GFile also allows us to remove things from the processing queues right away when they are on a USB that has been removed, instead of waiting for extraction errors and logging lots of errors. Thanks for your comments Sam _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
