Re: [Tracker] [Fwd: Re: ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.7.3 released]

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 16:07 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2009/10/19 Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>:
> > > A bit more polish (like this) here and there and full text support for
> > > more file types and it is imho ready for prime time.
> >
> > What document formats are you missing specifically?
>
> I have a small music collection, ogg encoded, which are properly
> tagged, but searching for those tags like Album or Title does not
> return any results in t-s-t.
> I think I had the same problem with jpegs rsp. tags in their exif header.
> I also have a lot of documentation as pdf, and for some search terms,
> which I know exist in the docs, I don't get any result. Not sure if
> this might be a size related restriction.
> Excel (xls) support seems to be missing
> Postscript also.
> msword/doc seems to work.
> OpenDocument/odf also.
> ldif/vcf address book files support seems missing
>
> This is from the top of my head.
>
> I also had some very bad experience with torrent downloads. tracker
> seems to be constantly reindexing the file during download and used
> 100% cpu. I had to exclude/hide the download directory to get a usable
> system back.

the old tracker maintained a blacklist of frequently changing files to
avoid this (it would only index 15 minutes after the file in question
stopped changing) - Im pretty sure this was transferred to new tracker
but need to check...

jamie