Re: [Tracker] Needle issues

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 17/11/10 11:25, Alexander Hunziker wrote:
> Here's a list of issues I found. This is not with the very latest git (I
> can't build tracker currently due to too old a vala compiler on my
> system), but a fairly recent build nonetheless

Thanks for testing! :)

> * Needle doesn't show thumbnails, as t-s-t did. It should show
> thumbnails in at least the grid view, maybe in the others? For bonus
> points, it could talk to a thumnailing service such as tumbler to
> generate thumbnails which are lacking.

Yes, right now, we load them during run time, not good. I need to 
improve this whole area I agree.

> * If one clears the search box, the results should be cleared as well

Fixed, thanks

> * I couldn't open an email by double clicking on it

This isn't actually possible. I checked with Philip, he has already 
asked the right people for this.

> * If I search for a person's name, I would emails from and to that
> person to be found

Hmm, you're right, thanks, will see what I can do. Right now, I didn't 
add it because I didn't see it as useful as finding emails. Also, 
Contacts are quite interesting in the sense that there are a lot of 
"open" verb operations you can do for them and I am unsure what makes 
sense. For example, a contact can be related to emails, sms, mms, im, 
and some other areas which I don't have in mind right now. In just those 
cases, there are quite a few different actions to take, which do we do? 
I would rather avoid a menu here. The app is really a show case for what 
you can do and not a full blown implementation. I could of course list 
contacts, but not operate on them, but that feels a bit useless.

> * In the category view, the icon used for "office documents" is
> confusing. i thought it was just presentations, and only later realised
> that text documents are there as well

The icons we use are stolen from other places of course, they are not 
correctly used at all so in different themes they definitely may look 
out of place. It is bad I know, but I just wanted to get something started.

> * Currently, the tooltip in category view shows the folder but not the
> filename. Generally it would be nice if one can always somehow see the
> full path of the search result

Fixed. At the time I thought the parent directory was better, but that's 
in the full name anyway so :)

> * If I perform a search in the category view, switch to list view, and
> then back, the results are not correctly updated.

Aha, been wondering how to reproduce that, seen it a few times. I will 
look into that.

> * When searching for an artists name, songs by that artist are returned,
> even if the artist name is not part of the filename, which is great (and
> something which never worked in t-s-t). If I however search for an
> artists name and a word in a track title, i get no results at all.

Hmm, how are you doing it? "$artist $titleword" ?

Let me test that and get back to you. Not sure if it is supposed to be 
supported at this point.

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Regards,
Martyn