Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 03 March 2010 13:27:45 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I
> > > cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve
> > > this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very
> > > unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in
> > > this time?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for the first 5 minutes. I think On my
> > system it scans the music directory, presumably to find updates that
> > happened when amarok was not running. Fair enough, can't argue that,
> > but why is it so *slow*???
> 
> Yes, it scans the collection, I just verified that by removing a folder 
> from my collection. Start-up takes 7 minutes, I guess this also slows down 
> my KDE4 start-up even further (strigi also scans some stuff for about a 
> minute, along this music files I did not touch in any way). So when I save 
> my KDE session I have to remember to quit amarok before that. Of course, I 
> also have to remember to start amarok some time after I logged in, so I 
> can play music when I want without having to wait 7 minutes first.
> 
> This does not feel right...
> 
> BTW, a find /data/mp3 -type d takes about a minute. Checking the date of 
> the directories to verify they did not alter since the last scan should 
> not take that much longer.
> 
> Ah, I see the problem. It mainly scans /data/mp3/incoming, a directory I 
> have NOT selected as collection folder (but most other directories in 
> /data/mp3 are selected). Still, those files do not show up in my 
> collection, which is fine - some time ago amarok did index all in 
> /data/mp3, even if a directory was not selected.

I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk indexing 
function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it itself.

OTOH, that might just resurrect the mother of all threads we had recently - 
the one about the pros and cons of nepomuk and semantic-desktop :-)



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