Re: [Tracker] tracker over activities menu

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi!,

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Herr Oswald <herr_oswald gmx de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm on ubuntu 17.04 GNOME.
>
> Using tracker-needle, everything is fine. But when I'm using GNOME's
> activities menu, I only get results from my home directory, not the
> sub-directories, allthough they all are in the settings (tracker-
> preferences). And only file names, no contents.
>
> Is it true that the activities menu should call tracker results as well
> as tracker-needle? - And in the case - what's going wrong on my
> machine?

That doesn't happen directly. Gnome-shell uses the "search provider"
dbus interfaces, nautilus implements one such search provider for the
shell, which does use Tracker as per code in upstream.

Now, even though Ubuntu allows installing Tracker, they went through
great lengths to avoid a mandatory dependency on it. As a result, all
Tracker code in Nautilus has been patched away by Ubuntu, which made
the search experience within nautilus/overview below par.

Hope that clears things up!

Cheers,
  Carlos