Thinking about it, monitoring its behavior is more something for the the system-monitor?
Maybe we need a system monitor applet? One that allows us to enable/disable tracker, but also other types of background behavior like power-management, and the screensaver? Yes, could we have an applet that monitors the session: - cpu freq scaling - power-management (the battery) - screen-saver - tracker indexing - beagle indexing It would be a nice way to complement the network monitor. In the future the network applet could also assume some other networking-related tasks, like bluetooth, one-click enabling/disabling of webservers and configuring the firewall. Eventually in the future all background tasks depending on a working network connection could be hosted here. Like downloads. (if I disable networking, my downloads should pause) We should _not_ clutter the desktop with tools that just monitor things that should-just-work (tm). Off course, some people want some control. Dividing these kind of monitor operations into 2 applets would be great. The last thing we need is seperate applet for each program that runs in the background. Esspecially because how it is technically feasible and easy to separate the tasks into seperate programs, they are often very much related in the eyes of the user. Network-manager being a good example of how it should be done (it actually manages a whole set of network-connection related apps). Tracker having its own icon, would like having a wired-network-applet, a wireless-network-applet, a bluetooth-applet, etc. Off course I understand the need for visibility of the tracker guy's. They want to be able and point and say 'we made that'. But really it should just integrate and work. I understand that they are proud, (they should be) but they shouldn't want to draw that much attention to what they do.. We need a user-oriented interface. One that categorizes tasks the way the user would want to interact with it. Not the way they are technically setup. Like I said before, a lot of users think tracker/deskbar are the same thing. They type something and it finds all their files. -- Don't ship with tracker's Applet enabled by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184240 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
