Strigidaemon

[Randy Kramer]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 05:42 am, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> Here is another idea:
> 
> During initial indexing (this is the heavy cpu-loading one) show a progress 
> dialog with a short explanation of what is happening (in the upper left or 
> whatever). Let it have a "details" button which provides detailed 
information 
> and direct access to basic configuration. This should include "cancel and do 
> not start again" and "select the folders to index".
> 
> Once the initial indexing is done, only moved and newly created files should 
> be indexed. That should be fairly little work for the cpu. An exception are 
> files that are changed or added while strigi was not running. But that is 
> another problem which IMHO should be addressed in a smarter way than just 
> re-indexing everything. A possibility would be to save the last time strigi 
> ran and only check files that have a later modification date. Then at least 
> we would neither have to check the index nor the file contents for each file 
> again.
> 
> Anyway, what do you think of the progress info for the initial run?

+1--sounds good to me.  

I hope somewhere (not buried too deeply) there will be options to, for 
example, if you cancel the current run, do things like "remind me later" or 
"start again on next boot" and similar.

Randy Kramer