GNOME 2.18 released [LWN.net]

GNOME 2.18 released

Posted Mar 15, 2007 8:35 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
In reply to: GNOME 2.18 released by madscientist
Parent article: GNOME 2.18 released

All people using people but feeling uncomfortable with mono (for whatever reasons) should be looking into "Tracker" an indexer written as part of the Gnome project in C. I've found it to be incredibly fast, use much less memory and already be integrated into Nautilus. There is also a plugin to connect it to the deskbar applet.

It seems to be a fantastic program. BTW, I am not affiliated with that project.

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GNOME 2.18 released

Posted Mar 15, 2007 11:17 UTC (Thu) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

afaik, tracker will be in 2.20, and it's indeed way beyond what beagle
offers in terms of stability and performance.

GNOME 2.18 released

Posted Mar 16, 2007 7:21 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Thanks for the tips to the above people.

GNOME 2.18 released

Posted Mar 18, 2007 12:43 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

I've been playing with tracker and so far when it's running I can't realy tell the difference except for the initial startup.

With Beagle I could get it to work fine if I put certain directories on the 'privacy filter'. My Downloads directory, a directory I used for scratch space and torrents, and a fuse-mounted (sshfs) directory from my file server.

That way it wouldn't try to index the big binaries files and any sort of file that was temporary.

But with tracker I don't need to do this, at least not so far. Although I probably will end up excluding certain directories as I don't want it to clutter up search results.

Beagle made me think that desktop search was just one of those things that only people with relatively new machiens could benifit from. But using tracker I could see people using it quite effectively in in the sorts of machines that already can run KDE/Gnome effectively. Even less then that for people who feel that they could get very positive benifits from having their desktop file indexed.