Re: Turning off clippy...er...I mean tracker

[Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika yahoo com>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Adam  Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>
> To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Turning off clippy...er...I mean tracker
> 
> On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 23:09 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  Hello List,
>>  Ok, I open up the "Search and Index" application and uncheck
>>  everything under "Semantics".  Do I need to do anything else to 
> get
>>  those tracker-* services to stop popping up and needlessly burning
>>  cycles on my cpu?
> 
> (1) you can use the gnome-session-properties application to manage
> startup programs

Ah, thanks.  I didn't know about this program.

> (1.1.) It really should be much easier to find this.  Much like the fact
> that I have to search for and run "Printing" to set my session's 
> default
> printer.

It doesn't look like gnome-session-properties has an icon in the applications
listing.

> (1.2.) Reading <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747689>
> might help you out too.

The criticisms there are reasonable.

> 
> (2) your statement is bull,  Tracker is not "needlessly burning 
> cycles".
> Tracker is 104% awesome.

That must be why it was using 104% cpu when I was on Fedora. :)

> Install the extension found at
> <https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/284/tracker-search/>.  Don't
> bother replying if you disagree,  I'm not interesting in discussing
> this: tracker is awesome, fact.
> 
>>  And why isn't there an on/off toggle in that dialog?
> 
> Because being started or not is managed via auto-start.

The network manager UI has a prominent on/off switch.

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