Re: [Tracker] Documentation for openSUSE / GNOME 3

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:13:37 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Is the "query language" of tracker-needle defined somewhere? I'm
> thinking of something like search.twitter.com/advanced, where they
> tell you how to build a query. Or is it "like Google" - you type 
> stuff
> in and the search engine figures out exactly what you meant? ;-)

Well, it's very easy, so far there is no query language :) Ie you can
only do "plain" full text search queries. For more complex queries, you
have to use SPARQL. That may be one thing to improve in the future 
though.

Cheers

Adrien

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com> 
> wrote:
> > Hi Edward,
> >
> > > 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".
> >
> > ÂThanks for your feedback as "first time user" of Tracker. We had 
> > more
> > comments about our poor "first 5 minutes" experience and we 
> > definitely
> > want to improve it.
> >
> > ÂI have gathered this information in a wiki page:
> > http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/First5Minutes
> >
> > ÂI hope we can complete that page. Feel free to add more questions
> > there (we can complete/correct the answers if needed).
> >
> > ÂI guess we should add few entries about "RSS miner" and "Other
> > miners" (UPnp, Twitter...). Actually all those extras should be 
> > listed
> > in this wiki page:
> > http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/Family
> >
> > ÂThanks again for your comments,
> >
> > Ivan