Re: [Tracker] probem with finding filenames

["gebi fastmail fm" <gebi fastmail fm>]

thanks jamie

can somebody enlighten me howto do such an filenames search with
tracker-query ?
And was is a RDFQueryFile ? Sorry for this dump question. 
Anyhow - for searching for filenames, the wildcard support is essential.
As this is already possible to do, it would be great if some hacker
could implement this in tracker-search-tool gui. E.g on left plane add a
"filename" category.

thx
gebi


On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:02 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:59 +0100, gebi fastmail fm wrote:
> > please have a look:
> >
> > gebi kepler:~$ touch ayxcvbn.txt
> > gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcv
> >
> > -> no results when searching for a partial file-name ?!
> >
> > gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> > /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
> >
> > fine -- works with a full file-name without extension.
> >
> > now make a new filename - the same as above but with an underscore:
> >
> > gebi kepler:~$ touch ayxcvbn_go.txt
> > gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> > /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
> > /home/gebi/ayxcvbn_go.txt
> >
> > now I got all results !
> >
> > gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcvb
> >
> > but for a partial filename -> no results but for 
> >
> > a "full" part of a filename it works:
> >
> > gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> > /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
> > /home/gebi/ayxcvbn_go.txt
> >
> >
> > any hints ?
> > I think searching for filenames should have a similar behavior as locate
> > which searchs for  "*file*"
> > in this way it could be an "always up to date replacement" for locate
> > and an essential behavior when used in a filemanager.
> >
> >
> > I'm using tracker 0.6.4
>
> wildcard suport is on the way so you will be able to search for abc* for
> everything and not just filenames
>
> for an app thats only interested in filenames then you can already do
> these wildcard searches (using tracker-query)
>
> jamie