[maemo-developers] mafw, trackerd and apps with external media files ?

[From: Juan A. Suarez Romero]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:12 +0200, Attila Csipa wrote:
> A question about the mawf-trackerd duo: should applications that
> require storage of their (not end-user oriented) media files on the
> external cards do anything special to avoid appearing in mafw via
> trackerd (like they appear now in Media Player through
> metalayer-crawler) or is this taken care on a framework/maemo level in
> fremantle ? Sorry if this has been asked previously, I couldn't find
> anything relevant in the mafw .pdf and my archive searches on the
> topic proved unfruitful, too.
> 

Mafw shows the clips that are provided by tracker, and tracker has
predefined a set of directories where to look for media files.

So the trick is to install those application's media files outside those
directories.

	J.A.