Re: [Tracker] new to tracker - some questions and suggestions

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2007/1/10, Björn Martensen <bjoern martensen gmail com>:
> Hi,

Hi Björn!

> 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.

I noticed the same behaviour. Sometimes tracker seems to miss to index
a file. If I explicetely mv the file to /tmp and back, trackerd picks
it up correctly.

> 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.

All good points imho. Please to go http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and file
bugs against the "tracker" component so these issues are not
forgotten.

Cheers,
Michael