Re: [Tracker] Documentation for openSUSE / GNOME 3

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

Thanks again!! Just out of curiosity, does all this Tracker magic work
on a GNOME 2 desktop? It may be some time before the GNOME 3 desktop
works well in a virtual machine, so my appliances are stuck at 2.32
for the moment.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com> wrote:
> 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
>
> ÂAFAIK we are using FTS3. Maybe is time to take a look into FTS4.
>
> ÂRegards,
>
> 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".
> > > >
> > > > 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



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