[02:56] <xclaesse> Hi, 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 ?
[02:59] <xclaesse> Also 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...
[04:50] <JanC> xclaesse: now imagine if your files would be on a network share...
[04:52] <JanC> you can remove tracker-miner-fs & such
[04:52] <JanC> that removes the main useless CPU killer, I suppose
[19:11] <xclaesse> JanC I don't see such option
[19:12] <xclaesse> meanwhile, tracker-extract has been 100% CPU for many hours already
[19:12] <JanC> xclaesse: I mean remove that package
[19:12] <xclaesse> JanC that removes nautilus and ubuntu-desktop too
[19:12] <xclaesse> it's hard dep
[19:12] <xclaesse> must be downgraded to recommended asap IMHO
[19:13] <JanC> oh, well, I stopped using nautilus, so I probably didn't see that...  :-/
[19:13] <xclaesse> yep, I guess nobody uses nautilus
[19:14] <xclaesse> but 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 package
[19:14] <JanC> I used to like nautilus, until they started to maim all its useful features...
[19:15] <xclaesse> it is a massive regression from 18.04 for me at least
[19:17] <JanC> it's nautilus that requires the FS miner
[19:17] <JanC> not sure why...
[19:24] <xclaesse> this is serious IMHO, reported the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1860932
[19:25] <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1860932 in nautilus (Ubuntu) "Remove dependency on tracker" [Undecided,New]
[19:28] <JanC> xclaesse: the dependency also exists in 19.10 BTW (and maybe earlier?)
[19:28] <xclaesse> I come from 18.04
[19:29] <xclaesse> I 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)
[19:32] <JanC> an alternative is to replace nautilus with something useful  :)
[19:34] <xclaesse> I 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/1356
[19:34] <gitbot> GNOME issue (Merge request) 1356 in gtk "GtkSearchEngineSimple: Disable recursive search" [Opened]
[19:34] <xclaesse> without that, type ahead in file chooser result in 200% CPU usage for severa minutes
[19:35] <xclaesse> when you have many files in your HOME
[19:35] <JanC> or locks up the network if you are on a network share probably?
[19:36] <xclaesse> I would hope it's smart enough to skip network volumes, but probably it's that dumb, yes
[19:36] <JanC> not always obvious to detect network volumes (e.g. when they are implemented using FUSE)
[19:38] <xclaesse> bbl