Re: [Tracker] Documentation for openSUSE / GNOME 3

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb borasky-research net>]

GNOME 3 itself on openSUSE isn't all that well documented. ;-) They
built DVDs for the GNOME project but most of what I've seen is battles
over which is better, Unity or GNOME 3, with occasional people saying
KDE 4 has them both beat. I installed KDE again yesterday just to see
if it still made me nauseous and it still does, so I am with GNOME 3
to stay. ;-)

Basically what I want to do is

a. Index / search my collection of research PDFs. I have a lot of
music CDs but don't really see the need to rip them and put them on a
hard drive any more. I don't do much with photos or videos.

b. Mine the web, especially Twitter and "open government" data. I'm
building appliances for "data journalists" so it's the data collection
part that's the most interesting.

What I've figured out so far is

a. Where the configuration files and log files are, so I can set the
logging verbosity to 2. ;-)
b. How to use "tracker-preferences" to set up what filesystems to index.
c. How to nuke the Tracker database and re-index using
"tracker-control" on the command line.
d. How to do a search with "tracker-needle".

I don't think any of this is documented in the openSUSE or GNOME 3
documentation. And I haven't touched the Evolution miner at all yet -
Evolution isn't "approved" as a GMail IMAP client and I'm not really
interested in mining email anyhow. I might try to get the Evolution
RSS piece interface but it seems silly if Tracker will mine RSS
directly.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org> wrote:
> Le Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:36:44 -0700,
> "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb borasky-research net> a Ãcrit :
>
> > I've just upgraded my openSUSE 11.4 systems to GNOME 3 and I'm
> > starting to experiment with Tracker. I've been able to piece together
> > a few things from "man" pages, "tracker-control --help", etc., but
> > I've been able to find almost no basic documentation on how to start,
> > configure, manage and use Tracker. Is there a documentation "wish
> > list?" A documentation sub-project? Should I just file bugs?
> <snip>
>
> All the documentation lives at
> http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation
>
> If you find something is missing, we're happy to hear your
> suggestions/comments :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Adrien



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