Re: [Tracker] search by words in file names

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

> > Thanks for this excellent work with tracker.
> > I'm testing the 0.8.15 version with ubuntu lucid with tracker-search, but I
> > can't find documents like I want. For example, I'm looking for
> > "hamster-applet.txt".
> > When I type "hamster", I found my file.
> > When I type "applet", I don't found my file.
> > My bloc-notes is organized with files.txt, so it's important for me to
> > access to them by name files.
> > I have too tags in my notes, just a line with "{{tag>gnome applet }}", but
> > it would be probably more complicate to access them with this way that with
> > name files.
> > Best regards,
> > Thibaud.
>
> It's a missing feature and I don't know what it will take for Tracker
> devs to realise it's important enough to add. The difficulty has to do
> with some limitations of FTS, which someone else suggested a
> workaround for using regexps (but I can't find a link to that).

We actually already realized that it's quite important to have
non-prefix FTS searches, but the implementation is far from trivial, so
probably not happening soon... :-/

-- 
Aleksander