Re: [Tracker] Feedback for 0.5.0

[Erlend Davidson <E R M Davidson sms ed ac uk>]

On 19 Oct 2006, at 21:24, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The search returned a pdf document but I think I saw that pdf was not
> supported when I ran configure?
>
> The "Files" category is not easily understandable by a new user. What
> is the difference between "Files" and the other categories?
>
> 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?"
>
> The indexing of my files used a lot of CPU but I don't know if it  
> is a problem.
I find searching sometimes uses a lot of CPU... and sometimes takes a  
while using the interface.
Also, I take it inotify is standard in tracker now, if so why does it  
need to do a full index every day?  I thought the idea of inotify was  
to watch creation/modification of files in realtime so the index is  
always up to date?
> Anyway, keep up the good work and good luck on getting it into gnome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
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