Re: [Tracker] Tracker, Nautilus, Feisty--A Few Questions

[greg <gregkise gmail com>]

Hi Michele,

Thank you very much for your response.

To enable Nautilus using the tracker this are the things that you have
to do:
1) Compile Nautilus when you have tracker-lib installed (Already
installed if you compile from svn, otherwise look for something like
tracker-devel)

2) You have done.
  

Please forgive my ignorance. I'm relatively new to this level of linux customization and have very little experience with svn and compiling. I'm like a linux sheep, I just follow the instructions I'm given.

a) Do I already have tracker-lib installed if I installed tracker and tracker-util? Or do I need to get tracker-lib from tracker-devel? And where do I find tracker-devel if it is needed?

b) Are you saying that once I have tracker-lib installed if I perform a routine compile of Nautilus, then tracker will automatically be enabled in Nautilus? And I don't have to do anything else?

c) If I get a tarball of my current Nautilus (2.18.1) and recompile it with tracker-lib installed,  when I do a make install it will replace/update my current installation of Nautilus with the tracker enabled version?

Note: If Beagle is running it gets the priority.
If you want to make sure that tracker is picked up by the Nautilus, stop
beagle.

  

I've already uninstalled Beagle. I thought it was painfully slow. Tracker feels much snappier.

I think a Nautilus view is something that you are looking for. But I can
be terribly wrong. ;)

  

I'll look into it. Is Nautilus View a plug-in or extension or just the view built into Nautilus? I think one of the most powerful things about tags is that you can create tag based folders (like Smart Folders in OSX). This allows you to keep copies of a document in multiple folders without having multiple copies of the document. Especially useful for a grad student or someone who reuses documents, like PDFs, in many different projects.

Right now (AFAIK) it is possibile to tag with:
1) command line
2) tracker-gui
  

Where do I get tracker-gui? I typed that into terminal and got nothing. The tracker-search-tool is the only gui I have and seems to have nothing indicating tagging files

Thanks again. I really appreciate it...cheers!
-Greg