Re: [Tracker] Documentation? Query options?

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 13:00 +0100, Johann Petrak wrote:
> I find the documentation of tracker rather lacking: there is not even a
> help button in the search GUI anywhere.
>
> I especially miss information on how to do more than just the most
> primitive queries in the GUI: how can one limit the query to just
> files of a specific type, e.g. PDF, or just HTML or to other
> metadata fields? Is there a way to only search within a certain
> directory? Is there a way to exclude search terms, do phrase
> search or near searches? Boolean search?
> What options does the user have?

at present none!

We put off implementing anything here as Xesam defines a new language
for searching and that would obsolete it.

We will be implementing xesam and its search language soon (in 0.7.*
versions)

jamie