[Nepomuk] Bugs, Patches and Scripts. - StrigiService & KInotify

[Sebastian Trüg]

I think I have to agree with Arie here. I would only keep indexing dirs
that are explicitly marked as index dirs. However, the problem here is
that the only way a dir can be marked as explicitly indexed is if its
parent folder is not indexed. That is just the way the strigi service
config works. Thus, a user cannot mark specific folders as "indexed in
any case". Well, except if we add that to the UI. :P

Cheers,
Sebastian

On 05/06/2010 01:56 PM, Arie Peterson wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2010 16:45:19 +0530, Vishesh Handa <handa.vish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I think it's kinda intuitive that if a folder is being indexed and one
> of
>> it's subfolders, which is also being indexed, is moved somewhere. The
>> subfolder should still be indexed. Doesn't that seem normal?
> 
> If the subfolder was explicitly marked by the user as "to be indexed",
> then yes, I agree.
> 
> If, on the other hand, it was being indexed only because it was a
> subfolder of an indexed folder, then I'm not so sure. The only reason the
> subfolder was indexed in the first place, was its location. If its location
> changes, why still index it?
> 
> Well, to be honest, there are of course situations where this behaviour is
> useful. But I don't think it is wanted in all situations.
> 
> For example, it means that if you accidentally place a folder 'S' in an
> indexed folder, it becomes "tagged"; if you want to place 'S' somewhere
> else, so it won't be indexed, you either have to
>   1) move all its files to a new dir, which is not "tagged"; if 'S' has
> subfolders, then it's not enough to simply move over all its contents,
> because these subdirs will also be "tagged" — you'll have to recreate the
> whole directory structure; or
>   2) use some explicit interface to nepomuk/strigi to convince them to
> "untag" 'S' (remove it from the indexed folders list).
> 
> I guess the preferred option would be 2).
> 
>> Just to be clear, this patch would only add directories to the indexed
>> folders list if they were previously being indexed. It does not track
>> indexed files.
> 
> OK. I guess this asymmetry between files and folders makes it a bit
> unintuitive for me.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arie
> 
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