On 2016-09-28 21:05, Bjørn Lie wrote:
on., 28.09.2016 kl. 19.54 +0200, skrev Jan Engelhardt: So, why can't the developers make it start on-demand then, if it is
_that_ essential? Desktop environments seem to be quite eager starting all kinds of background processes on other occassions…
Because starting indexing on demand would make everything way slower/cpu intensive vs having the index updated incrementally as files come and go.
And even worse: when starting an app that relies on the index - the index won't be there.
This is interesting. I thought that the only tool that used the index would be the search tool, when the user actively wants to search for some thing. So you say that applications may use that index. What for? Perhaps, instead of doing a directory search for display on "open file" they use the index? I'm just curious, wanting to learn things, not saying that it is wrong. I actually use and like the search tool in gnome, called from xfce. I don't notice slowdowns. I forgot that I also have tracker. I don't know how to call it. It would be nice to have a single search engine used by both gnome and kde. IMHO :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)