Re: [Tracker] strange behaviour (0.6.3/Ubuntu Gutsy)

[Antonin Chambolle <antonin chambolle free fr>]

Many thanks 


Le Saturday 08 March 2008 02:43:52 Jamie McCracken, vous avez ÃcritÂ:
> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 01:54 +0100, Antonin Chambolle wrote:
> > Hi everybody
> > (I just want to complain!!!)
> > I have been using tracker on Ubuntu Feisty (0.5.???) and now on Gutsy
> > (0.6.3) and I think it is not working very well anymore (as it used to).
> > It is hard to produce any concrete example but I occasionally notice
> > searches that do not produce any results, whereas they should (and used
> > to with the previous version)
> >
> > I have an example, though. I downloaded symbols-a4.pdf from
> > www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf and
> > saved it on my hard disk. Now, when I search "arcminutes" on tracker, it
> > find the file symbols-a4.pdf (and no other, since this strange word is
> > unlikely to be found anywhere else). But if I ask to look for "atomic"
> > (which is found on p. 108) then it nevers find this file (it finds many
> > other files). In the past month, I tried quite a few other searches that
> > did not help me find the correct file, while the word I was searching WAS
> > in the file. I also once (and maybe not only once) found a file which was
> > NOT containing the word I had searched.
> >
> > Is it NORMAL ? (it does not seem so, and was not like this with the
> > former version, or less, since I hadn't noticed)
>
> these were fixed in 0.6.4 in hardy
>
> > If you have any idea why it is so, or if there is some setting I need to
> > change, please let me know (I'd rather not switch to google
> > desktop...!!!) A last question, completely disconnected: is there any
> > chance that postscript files .ps/.ps.gz will be indexed some time ? what
> > about archives (zip/tgz/tar)?
>
> yes these are planned
>
> jamie