Re: [Tracker] Documentation for openSUSE / GNOME 3

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com>]

Hi

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org> wrote:
> 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? ;-)

The query language in tracker-needle is the FTS query language of
SQLite. Basically it supports word, prefix-search ("word*"), AND, OR
and NOT. Some documentation available here:

http://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html#section_3

 AFAIK we are using FTS3. Maybe is time to take a look into FTS4.

 Regards,

Ivan


> 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".
> > >
> > >  Thanks 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.
> > >
> > >  I have gathered this information in a wiki page:
> > > http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/First5Minutes
> > >
> > >  I hope we can complete that page. Feel free to add more questions
> > > there (we can complete/correct the answers if needed).
> > >
> > >  I 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
> > >
> > >  Thanks again for your comments,
> > >
> > > Ivan