Re: [Tracker] some problems in v0.6.2

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:48 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> While testing 0.6.2 I noticed those problems, some of them were for sure in previous versions too:
>
> 1) I created *through gedit* a txt file whose content is "testing tracker 0.6.2". the content is not 
> indexed: when searching for one of/all the words the results do not contain this file (instead it works if 
> I search for the filename).  Changing the content still has no effect. This does not happen if I use *vim*, 
> but this happens if I edit with vim the file previously created by gedit.
> 2) tracker remembers the old names of the file: for instance if you create a file named "test1" and then 
> you rename it to "renamed" and you search for test1, among the results you'll have "renamed" and you can 
> continue to rename the file again! Is this a wanted behavior?
> 2a) the same for file content when changed/removed (not valid if you delete the file and create one with 
> the same filename)
> 3) I indexed ~/Documenti but I also added to NoWatchDirectory ~/Documenti/Dati. Unfortunately tracke 
> indexes this diectory
> 3a) the same for NoIndexFileTypes
> 4) deleted files are not removed from the index (and so the hit count of tracker-preferences is wrong)
> 5) in the search result preview it is not highlighted the correct part: for instance I have a file which 
> contains the work "#program" and if I search for this word, in the results another word gets highlighted, 
> which is "programs", maybe because tracker finds it before "#program". I really think that tracker *must* 
> distinguish an exact match from a similar match, and put exact matches in the beginning of the results (and 
> of course highlight the exact match, if any)
>
> Let's hope I won't find other problems!

thanks for the bug reports - we will attend to these soon