Re: [Tracker] searching tags

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>]

2010/6/18 Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>:
> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:36 -0500, Derrick Pemberton wrote:
> > I'm using Tracker 0.9.5-0 on Ubuntu Lucid. I am using Tracker in order
> > to be able to search files based upon tags I have applied. After
> > downloading and installing Tracker I was able to easily apply tags to
> > several files. I then made sure it indexed everything. However, I cannot
> > figure out how to search for files based upon their tags with the
> > Tracker gui. I have searched for the answer but have yet to find one.
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I don't think this is supported. Unfortunately the UI is quite lacking
> and needs some love.

Yep, that's a shame.
Afaik neither t-s-t, nor the nautilus or gtk-file-selector search
dialog allow to search for tags.

The only way currently to search for tags that I know is:
tracker-tag -t -s <tagname>
on the command line

Michael

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