Re: [Tracker] Documentation for openSUSE / GNOME 3

[simon hong <simon hong81 gmail com>]

Hi, Adrien

Could you share your twitter miner?

I want to index my tweet in Tracker.

Thank you.

Simon

2011/4/29 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 écrit :

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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