Re: [Tracker] Feedback for 0.5.0

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le samedi 21 octobre 2006 Ã 10:44 +0100, Erlend Davidson a Ãcrit :
> On 19 Oct 2006, at 21:24, Christoffer SÃrensen 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.

Hum... Are you using an up to date tracker from CVS? Some days ago,
issues with not-correctly-handled symlinks were still present...

> 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?

You're right but Inotify can't watch as many files as we would like...
It is limited in number of files. I think we have to wait for another
system in Linux.


Laurent.

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