Ubuntu
tracker package

Tracker applet is run even though no tray-icon is shown

Bug #272163 reported by Wouter Stomp
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tracker (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: tracker

When indexing and watching is disabled, tracker applet runs but without showing a tray-icon. As showing a trayicon seems to be the only purpose of tracker-applet this seems to be a total waste of resources (tracker-applet uses about 1,6mb of memory on my system).

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

Confirming on Hardy. I removed tracker-applet to stop this process.

Changed in tracker:
status: New → Confirmed
Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
Changed in tracker:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

This is still the case with Intrepid. I'm not sure whether to send this upstream or not. After all, we are actually explicitly executing tracker-applet from gnome-session, so I'm not really sure if this should be dealt with upstream.

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Andrew (fishpie) wrote :

When I create a new user in Intrepid, the new user experiences this bug. Changing 'EnableIndexing=false' to 'EnableIndexing=true' in ~/.config/tracker fixes this bug for me

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Andrew (fishpie) wrote :

I think that I misunderstood this bug. I thought that the problem was the lack of a tracker icon. But reading the original report I now realise the the problem is tracker-applet running when there is correctly no icon displayed.

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