Fixes GB#617082, RFE Useability - Learning How to Start the Miners was a Little Unintuitive

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/docs/manpages/tracker-control.1 b/docs/manpages/tracker-control.1
index 3bfe23c27..d8c0e9e82 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/tracker-control.1
+++ b/docs/manpages/tracker-control.1
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ tracker-control \- Manage Tracker processes and data
 lists all tracker related processes when no
 \fIOPTION\fRs are specified.
 
+To see the status of the miners and the store, use 
+.B tracker-status.
+You can pause or resume miners and also see which ones
+are running and which ones are installed.
+
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-?, \-\-help
@@ -69,4 +74,5 @@ more than once per \fIMIME\fR type.
 Print version.
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
+.BR tracker-status (1),
 .BR tracker-store (1).
diff --git a/docs/manpages/tracker-status.1 b/docs/manpages/tracker-status.1
index f3ce7e436..1d1b52a6c 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/tracker-status.1
+++ b/docs/manpages/tracker-status.1
@@ -8,13 +8,24 @@ tracker-status \- Report the state of all data miners
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B tracker-status
-shows the status of all miners installed. It also allows pausing and
-resuming of miners. For
-.B tracker-store
-state, you need to use
-.B tracker-control
-.PP
+shows the status of all miners and the store which miners push
+information into. To do this, you can run
+.B tracker-status
+with no command line arguments. For
+.B tracker-store,
+the status is always 
+.B Idle
+unless it is replaying a journal (regardless of load from applications
+or miners). For a list of common statuses, see
+.B \-\-list\-common\-statuses.
 
+The miners can be paused or resumed using this command and you can
+list miners running and available.
+
+To start or stop miners, you need to use 
+.B tracker-control.
+The store is started automatically by the D-Bus calls from the miners.
+.PP
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-?, \-\-help