Hi, I installed tracker 0.5.3 some days ago and it took quite some time until it said that the indexing was complete. However, only very few of my files were found with it, so I switched to the current svn version which works a lot better, but still indexing isn't working that good. After indexing was "complete" (I ran trackerd -t in a terminal), still quite a lot of my files couldn't be found during search. After I moved them, waited for the trackerd to recognize the changes and then moved them back, they were finally found. It works pretty good now and is quite fast, but I still have some questions and suggestions: General: * Can't tracker index hidden files/directories? All my config files in ~ for example aren't indexed and can't be found. Including non hidden files in config directories * Does tracker not support searching for substrings? when I have a file calles "foobar.ext" and search for "foobar", the file is found. When I search for "foo", it is not. Searching for "foo*" doesn't help either. * Is there a bug tracker for tracker where I can report bugs and see which bugs are known/reported? * on file deletion the trackerd spits out some errors when run in a terminal, you might check that. Gui: * The gui could need a close button, imho. it looks strange without one. * While indexing, searching takes a very long time. I think searching should have a higher priority. * "No files found" shouldn't be printed on startup of the gui, since you didn't even search yet. Instead it should be printed, when no files were found. In this case, nothing is printed atm ;) * replacing the combobox for the filetypes with checkbuttons could let the user search for multiple filetypes at once like videos and audio files. * the "Move to trash" option is gnome-only. Ok, files are moved to ~/.Trash, but for example thunar (the xfce file manager for 4.4) implemented trash according to fd.o trash specs and therefore has the trash in ~/.local/share/Trash. I think tracker will be very nice once it gets a bit more mature. That is indexing working better (and perhaps faster, if possible) and searching for substrings and hidden files would be working. Esp. searching for substrings makes me fire up slocate for search most of the time :/ However, keep up the good work, tracker is the way to go for desktop search under linux, imho. I really like the desktop independent core :) Greets, BjÃrn
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