On 05/07/2011 08:31 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
<panic> tracker-miner-f? tracker-extract? tracker-store? Oh hell! Did my kids click on something they shouldn't have in Vista? (no - wait, this is my laptop and it's opensuse 11.4) WTF? Did I just get hit with a new firefox virus? </panic>
Ah, deja vu. All over again. Tracker is supposedly the kinder, gentler beagle which is not so resource greedy. I suppose it isn't all that much like beagle, since it seems to allow some user activity while it's running. But it's behaviour and the limits imposed on what users can do about it still leaves a lot to be desired. There was some concession in previous tracker & beagle threads about the problems they cause the users but to date just about the only things that have changed is that tracker gets quietly installed by some silly, seemingly irrelevant dependency or other and beagle no longer does. Nothing much else seems to have been done about this long ongoing problem except more talk-talk. I've noticed advocates of disk indexers are now going on about "But what about the new users?", which seems similar to the "But what about the children?" tactic used by politicians. It doesn't seem to occur to them that new users may more likely be put off than experienced users by the resource greedy and untimely behaviour of these disk indexers. Well if it has, they've been careful not to mention it publicly. This makes me wonder if they truly comprehend the new user and if they really understand what new users expect, want and require. It almost seems to be more a case of being too much in love with the app. And love is certainly blind. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org