[desktop-discuss] Disable home directory index by default for tracker or not?

[Volker A. Brandt]

> >> 1. Disable home indexing,  and point to a FAQ page to tell user how to
> >> enable it.
> >
> > Everything except option 1 will be a maintenance nightmare and PR
> > disaster for Sun.
>
> Why's that? It would a quite good PR chance for Sun to go
> option 2, because then Sun can say, that it is os easy to
> find stuff on your local hard disk.

Of course you are correct.  But nobody will read that.  Everyone
will try the install CD, do a test installation, play with it for
5 minutes and say:  "Oh, this s**ks.  It is sooo slow.  Must be that
ZFS or that dtrace or whatever.  Let's go back to Ubuntu.  Linux
has better hardware drivers anyway."

The people on these mailing lists here don't count since we are
way overqualified. :-)

> And don't the other OS (like Windows or Mac OS X) also
> have such an indexer running?

I wouldn't know about Windows.  Mac OS X has one, and when it was new,
many people complained that startup was unbearably slow.

> I really don't quite get why you say that option 2 would be
> a "maintenance nightmare".

Those who won't silently give up will gripe about slow startup.
That has to be dealt with somehow.


Regards -- Volker
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