Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Atri <badshah400@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 17 July 2009 15:58:34 Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm looking at https://features.opensuse.org/305296
> The decision was to disable beagle by default. We have various options
> to do so and I'd like feedback on what would work best for people:
>
> + we can add a key to the autostart desktop file so that it gets
>   disabled by default.
>   Issue: there's no standardized keys accross all desktops to do this.
>   The KDE team is fine with not enabling beagle at all in KDE (using
>   something like NotShowIn=KDE), but we'd still have the issue in XFCE
>   and other desktops.
>   A possible solution is to use OnlyShowIn=GNOME so that beagle only
>   gets considered by GNOME during startup (still disabled, though).
>
> + we can simply remove the autostart desktop file.
>   Issue: it will not be possible to enable the start of beagle via the
>   usual autostart preferences.
>   Note that there's an option in the beagle preferences to
>   automatically get it started (it will add a .desktop file to the
>   autostart directory).
>
> Both options are kind of okay, but I guess it really depends on how
> people on other desktops that GNOME and KDE want this to work. Any
> opinion from XFCE people, for example?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>
> --
> Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.

In my opinion it would be better to take the second route. The first time
someone does a beagle search (usually from the gnome-main-menu or by hitting
F12) beagle suggests that the daemon is not running and then allows one to
start it from its interface. That way beagle only gets enabled when somebody
actually tries to carry out a search the first time, which, in my opinion, is
good.
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Atri
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