Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Don Scorgie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:07 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > <quote who="Jamie McCracken">
> > >
> > > > t-s-t uses the same code as g-s-t so it inherits the working code. Its a
> > > > better search tool because it can show search snippets like google as well
> > > > as providing high speed search.
> > > And it does so by using... Tracker? Which means you're not just proposing
> > > t-s-t, but the Tracker indexer and database? You really need to start being
> > > clear now.
> > yes we are proposing the lot - sorry for any confusion there
>
> One question (sorry for my ignorance): Does the replacement of g-s-t by
> t-s-t mean that in order to search files, the tracker deamon needs to be
> running?  If I use the search tool without the deamon running, will it
> still fall back to the current search method?  Or will it start the
> deamon?  

if installed properly, dbus will activate it if its not started

We have removed the existing search stuff so only tracker searches can 
use it.


What about if the metadata database is empty (running t-s-t for
> the first time without running the tracker indexer)?  If no results are
> returned (searching for anything), I'm guessing there will be a few bug
> reports and frustrated users.  I know the first few times I ran beagle
> (sorry for the comparison!), the indexer hadn't finished doing its thing
> and some files I was looking for were missing (which frustrated me no
> end).

yes that would happen. What we could do is check if tracker is doing its 
first time index and inform the user that searches might not be accurate 
until its finished

> Don
>
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