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xclaesseHi, I gave a try to Ubuntu 20.04, and I see tracker is now installed by default. I see no UI to tell which folder to ignore (git clones), tracker-preferences seems gone.  and apt remote tracker also wants to ubuntu-desktop and nautilus.... can it be downgraded to recommend instead of depend so we can remove that useless CPU killer ?02:56
xclaesseAlso noticed that gtk file chooser now perform recursive search on typeahead. Unlike nautilus, there is no option to disable that. It makes the file chooser completely unusable for me, I've got 450G of source code in my home, so browsing in the file chooser make it use 200% CPU for several minutes...02:59
JanCxclaesse: now imagine if your files would be on a network share...04:50
JanCyou can remove tracker-miner-fs & such04:52
JanCthat removes the main useless CPU killer, I suppose04:52
xclaesseJanC I don't see such option19:11
xclaessemeanwhile, tracker-extract has been 100% CPU for many hours already19:12
JanCxclaesse: I mean remove that package19:12
xclaesseJanC that removes nautilus and ubuntu-desktop too19:12
xclaesseit's hard dep19:12
xclaessemust be downgraded to recommended asap IMHO19:12
JanCoh, well, I stopped using nautilus, so I probably didn't see that...  :-/19:13
xclaesseyep, I guess nobody uses nautilus19:13
xclaessebut still, I would strongly recommend ubuntu desktop team to NOT install tracker or at the very least have UI to disable it, and allow uninstall the package19:14
JanCI used to like nautilus, until they started to maim all its useful features...19:14
xclaesseit is a massive regression from 18.04 for me at least19:15
JanCit's nautilus that requires the FS miner19:17
JanCnot sure why...19:17
xclaessethis is serious IMHO, reported the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/186093219:24
ubot5Ubuntu bug 1860932 in nautilus (Ubuntu) "Remove dependency on tracker" [Undecided,New]19:25
JanCxclaesse: the dependency also exists in 19.10 BTW (and maybe earlier?)19:28
xclaesseI come from 18.0419:28
xclaesseI usually only use LTS versions, but just got a new laptop and got kernel issues, 20.04 seems to have them fixed already (still testing that)19:29
JanCan alternative is to replace nautilus with something useful  :)19:32
xclaesseI would also strongly recommend picking this patch I just made to disable recursive search in gtk file chooser: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/merge_requests/135619:34
gitbotGNOME issue (Merge request) 1356 in gtk "GtkSearchEngineSimple: Disable recursive search" [Opened]19:34
xclaessewithout that, type ahead in file chooser result in 200% CPU usage for severa minutes19:34
xclaessewhen you have many files in your HOME19:35
JanCor locks up the network if you are on a network share probably?19:35
xclaesseI would hope it's smart enough to skip network volumes, but probably it's that dumb, yes19:36
JanCnot always obvious to detect network volumes (e.g. when they are implemented using FUSE)19:36
xclaessebbl19:38

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