[meego-packaging] [meego-commits] 6813: Changes to Trunk:Testing/sample-media

[Auke Kok]

On 08/20/2010 01:00 PM, Alexander Kanevskiy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 18:54, Arjan van de Ven<arjan at linux.intel.com>  wrote:
>> On 8/19/2010 2:02 AM, Marko Saukko wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> why we are copying the sample media to user's home directory, why not just
>>> add /usr/share/sample-media/ directory to tracker to index in addition to
>>> users' home?
>>
>> that doesn't work; the user must and wants to be able to delete the sample
>> media from his media folders....
>
> but if user "deletes" from applications that uses tracker, should it
> just remove from db  blacklist those files ?

That's up to the media application to decide, hence many media 
applications have 2 delete functions: "unlist" and "remove physical media".

 > in that way, it wouldn't be visible for user, and still occupying disk
 > space only once

Given the current size, not a huge concern. Plus, having media show up 
in my media player but unable to find it in the file manager is a pretty 
bad thing - something which annoys the hell out of me in some other OS's.

Auke