Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 20:06 +0000, mike cloaked wrote:

> I also discovered that three different tracker processes were running
> in my xfce desktop!  However since I don't see a need for them for me,
> nor do I want them, it was relatively easy to prevent them from
> executing on desktop startup by going to The Applications menu, then
> Settings->"Session and Startup" and under the "Application Autostart"
> tab then switch off "Tracker File System Miner", "Tracker Store" and
> "Tracker Miner for Flickr" as three separate switches - after that
> there are no tracker processes running after the next login.....  and
> if necessary the cache files can be removed as well.
> 
> I guess there are analogous switches in KDE too that might help make
> KDE actually work as a much snappier desktop? In fact I abandonned KDE
> for xfce because it was simply too slow logging in for my liking. All
> this in f16 but others may have a different experience of course?
> 
> If this makes KDE a usable desktop again I might even try it when I
> have a bit of spare time!

I don't think tracker is present in a stock KDE install. KDE has its own
desktop search thingy (though they call it the 'semantic desktop'),
Nepomuk.
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