[Tracker] Bad search results and bad stemming?

["J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn forestfield org>]

I've installed 0.5.4 on Fedora Core 6 (i386) from FC Extras.

I ran trackerd and let it index my homedir.  When it was complete I used 
the GUI search tool to look for "chomsky".

It came back with two results, both were dictionary files used with 
Firefox, but the GUI search tool didn't show me where the string 
"chomsky" was in context like it does for PDF files.  These dictionary 
files are text files as far as I can tell (I can read them with 
less(1)).  Both contain the string "Chomsky/M" which is obviously what 
the GUI search tool should have shown me.  Instead I saw "62076" as the 
only context.

I also noticed that searching for "chomsky" made trackerd say:

> Executing detailed search with params Files, chomsky, 0, 10
> searching for chomski with smin 0 and smax 9, offset 0 and limit 10

Why is a search for "chomsky" producing a search for "chomski" (with an 
i)?  Does this have to do with stemming or something else?

A suggestion for the GUI search tool: I think the GUI search tool should 
show a live search -- as I add and remove things that qualify as hits, 
the GUI search tool should add and remove them from the list of hits.

Another suggestion: tell me how many hits there are, and tell me when 
the search is looking.

Finally, are filenames supposed to constitute a hit or just file 
content?  I did this:

$ rm ~/Desktop/chomsky
$ touch ~/Desktop/chomsky

and searched again with the GUI search tool.  trackerd picked up on both 
file modifications, but the empty file did not come up in the search 
results.

Thanks for your help.