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(Get the code!)
Jamie McCracken,
I think my criticism was constructive. Please read it again if you doubt that I offered positive suggestions for each criticism that I had. Please bear in mind that I'm seriously annoyed that this software is enabled by default in Gutsy and is causing problems for many users including myself. Apologies if I caused any offence.
I develop and maintain OSS as well, and if any of my projects were lucky enough to get into Ubuntu and to be enabled by default, and users reported problems with them that made their systems almost unusable, I'd be the first to pull it or disable it.
I don't even want desktop search. I'm happy with grep, thank you. I didn't ask for tracker and I sure wasn't expecting it to (a) be installed and running, (b) sit in a loop eating cpu or (c) try to fill up my hard disk without even asking me.
Since according to comments above it is not even possible to disable it user by user in preferences, and anyway we run a multi-user system where we don't want to do this for each user individually, and I don't even want it, I just removed the package entirely. I'm afraid I don't have time or interest to help you to debug it right now. If I'd chosen to install it and then found it to be buggy it would be quite a different matter.