Comment 4 for bug 462894

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Seif Lotfy (seif) wrote : Re: [Bug 462894] Re: add a registry for Dataprovider

I think this should be done with the blacklist feature i discussed in the
other bug

2009/11/25 Siegfried Gevatter <email address hidden>

> Afaik the idea was that there should be a central place where any logger
> can be disabled. In any case, we still need this for stuff in the
> datahub (which may do logging from online services in the future, etc).
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> add a registry for Dataprovider
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/462894
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> Status in Zeitgeist Framework: Confirmed
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> Bug description:
> It should be possible to
> * enable/disable some dataprovider (esp. useful for testing while
> developing and debugging)
> * define which dataprovider sends events for which application (right now
> it is possible to have multiple DP per application, eg. are shipping a
> firefox logger and on the other hand there is an external FF extension which
> sends events. This can end in a race between both logger, and logging the
> same data twice is also not useful)
>
> The preferences should be stored in a user readable format (ini like text
> file) but also be accessible over DBus.
> Maybe this fits into a more general Configuration Interface I started some
> time ago.
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