Re: [Tracker] probem with finding filenames

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 23:08 +0100, gebi fastmail fm wrote:
> 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


RDFQuery is being deprecated in favour of xesam

It will have to wait for 0.7 release as there are urgent bugs to fix for
0.6.5

jamie


> 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
>
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