Strigidaemon

[John Tapsell]

On 01/04/2008, Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/1/08, Maksim Orlovich <mo85 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  > Having dialogs pop up at unsuspecting users is not very nice. :)
>  >
>  >
>  > Taking up a couple of gigs of disk space w/o permission isn't very nice,
>  >  either.
>
>
> Agreed, running out of space on my harddrive because strigi decided it
>  would be cool to use 20 gigs of space (on an 80 gig hard drive) was
>  not that pleasant an experience.

So we need sensible defaults.  How about using up to 5% of disk space,
and then asking the user whether to go above 5%?   That way the user
is asked if the index becomes 'unreasonable' large, but isn't bothered
by popups when first using kde.

JohnFlux