Re: [Tracker] Documentation for openSUSE / GNOME 3

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:22:05 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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.

Yep, Tracker will do that happily. I actually use it for that purpose.
There is (was?) also a nautilus plugin so that you can put tags on your
documents (not sure if tags are used in the tracker search tool, but 
that
could be easily fixed if not).

> 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.

I already have a Twitter miner (not upstream), it would need a bit of
love to bring it up to date though. I don't use twitter myself, but 
that's
certainly a good base to start. No idea about open government, but as 
long
as you know how to get the data, and have a matching ontology in 
Tracker,
should be doable.

> 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