Re: [Tracker] Metadata search Tracker Gnome

[John Bestevaar <Josephus people net au>]

Hi Martyn and Team :-)
Do i understand correctly that you propose to add to Tracker,  
tracker:fulltextIndexed true; for each mlo class property, as a function 
that indexes the texts and stores them in a database somewhere on the 
users machine and that it is this which will make the information 
retrievable via the Tracker GUI search? =-O

From my point of view, having all/any image metadata available to a 
Tracker Gui text search is very useful and very desirable. :-D
For example: mlo; city property: My photo collection ( early days ) has 
several tens of images with about a dozen different "city " locations. 
Finding,...via Tracker Gui,... which photos were taken at which 
location( Name in text form) would save me having to manually organize 
my collection (which will get big) into extensive album trees. 8-)
Cheers JohnB

On 28/09/11 04:20, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 27/09/11 17:54, John Bestevaar wrote:
> > OK, so i tried mlo:city "Beaudesert" in the query box of the Tracker 
> > Gui.
> > No result. :-!
>
> I don't expect this to work. The properties of the MLO classes are not 
> full text indexed at all. You would need to add 
> tracker:fulltextIndexed true; for each property which would be 
> interesting.
>
> It would be trivial for us to add this and patch it. Anyone object?
>
> > Therefore can i assume that Tracker Gui searches Metadata in images
> > using a completely different method from Filename searches and Document
> > Content Text searches? Alternatively, is it the case that image metadata
> > is encoded in a way that it is not available to Tracker Gui text search?
> > :-)
> > What do you mean by " fts property" ? O:-)
>
> FTS = full text search. I meant tracker:fulltextIndexed.