Re: [Tracker] questions

["Marcus Fritzsch" <fritschy googlemail com>]

On 8/15/07, Haim Roitgrund <haim roitgrund gmail com> wrote:
> Two questions about Tracker, if you would. I'm still with 0.5.4 (Ubuntu's
> repository, as I can't get 0.6.1 to compile):
>
> Quotes in the search term:
> :~$ tracker-search mexico | wc -l
> 178
> :~$ tracker-search "mexico exports" | wc -l
> 90
> :~$ tracker-search mexico exports | wc -l
> 90
>
> Clearly, Tracker will take more than one search term to be linked by "AND"
> by default.
>
> It doesn't seem, however, to take quotes into account, namely as requiring
> the search terms to be an exact phrase.
>
> Is this so?

tracker does search for terms but splits them at word boundaries and
ignores stop words like first or hello. You could as well search for
mexico.exports.

> Is there a way of searching with 'OR'?

I am no expert though ;)

>  .cfg and database in the user's home directory:
> I don't understand the choice to place the .cfg and database in the user's
> home directory, if I'm not mistaken.
> Is that in order to allow each user their own .cfg files, and therefore
> preferences and databases? Is it for privacy?
> When my son tried to search for terms I had previously usefully used to find
> a file, he found nothing. I guess because my .cfg and database are
> different. Is that so?

Tracker is a per session per user daemon, it is normally run on
x-session start up. There were already questions like this on the ML
though.

> If so, I would personally prefer to have a single .cfg for the whole system,
> with one database, searchable by all.
> Can this be done?

Currently not. But there are people trying to get a web interface for
some indexable content running - OK, that's not exactly what you meant
;) i think.


Cheers, Marcus