On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 11:39 -0400, Todd Rme wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar
wrote: On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 17:13 +0200, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
If you, like me, run both GNOME and KDE changing the "OnlyShowIn" by removing "KDE;" is a good thing to do. My experience is that having tracker and baloo running at the same time makes KDE less responsive, to put it mildly.
See my earlier mail - I don't think it's a great idea.
What is likely done to few is telling tracker of locations it should not scan (e.g large git trees or the lice). Simply putting an empty file .trackerignore is sufficient and it will not go there.
Tracker is by no means as heavy on the disk as people keep on yelling - it is not beagle
That has not been my experience at all. Occasionally tracker gets pulled in by packages that I wouldn't expect to need a full disk indexer (or that don't actually need on, but pull it in due to how tracker is packaged), and system responsiveness immediately goes out the window.
somethings you might not expect link the tracker libraries - the tracker libraries recommend the presence of tracker (which makes sense I'd say - the libs main purpose is to talk to the tracker daemons) As with any recommended package it can be 'locked' for as long as you don't need stuff that really requires it's presence (and: tracker does no FULL DISK indexing! That's a stupid thing to do and is useless - it only indexes your home directory and anything you might have configured in plus) Still: people confuse this with how bad beagle was - there is no denying: beagle was bad and everybody is happy it is dead. Cheers, Dominique