Re: [Tracker] Feedback for 0.5.0

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Christoffer Sørensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw that 0.5.0 was released and gave it a go on my laptop (T23).
>
> Tracker-search-tool:
>
> + looks clean and simple
>
> The window needs to be a bit wider because the search field is too narrow.

okay will fix

> I gave it a test run by searching for "Files".
>
> It returned three results. The next button should have been grayed out
> because there were no more results for that query.

yes thanks will fix this.

> The search returned a pdf document but I think I saw that pdf was not
> supported when I ran configure?

pdf text extraction uses pdftotxt so if you have that installed it will 
use it. Only the pdf metadata extractor is optional so it wont extract 
embedded metadata if you have that off.

> The "Files" category is not easily understandable by a new user. What
> is the difference between "Files" and the other categories?

I guess it should say "All Files" instead - the others are subcategories 
of "All Files"

> The search tool also need some kind of status of the tracker daemon.
> Like "how many of my files am I able to search now?"

not sure?

> The indexing of my files used a lot of CPU but I don't know if it is a problem.

its at nice+19 and if you are not using turbo mode it will perioidically 
fsync to prevent large dirty buffers from building up and pausing your 
system. It will use spare cpu cycles if your system is idle but if you 
play a game or watch a video you should not see any side effects from 
tracker's indexing. (at least I did not on my system)

> Anyway, keep up the good work and good luck on getting it into gnome.

yeah ta - looks like it will be a rough ride but Im sure we will get 
there eventually even if we have to wait for 2.20


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