Remote execution in the GNOME tracker

Posted Oct 13, 2023 10:15 UTC (Fri) by sam.thursfield (subscriber, #94496)
Parent article: Remote execution in the GNOME tracker

Thanks for the excellent writeup !

If anyone is interested in reading about what features the Tracker search engine & database provides, I did some writeups a few years ago as part of the Tracker 3 effort.

You could start here:

* https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2020/10/05/tracker-3-...
* https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2020/11/03/tracker-3-...

There is unfortunately very little investment in improving desktop search in general, I think for a team of about 1.5 volunteers to keep this 2006-era codebase going way into the 2020's is something quite impressive :)

Remote execution in the GNOME tracker

Posted Oct 13, 2023 12:37 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

> There is unfortunately very little investment in improving desktop search in general, I think for a team of about 1.5 volunteers to keep this 2006-era codebase going way into the 2020's is something quite impressive :)

I hate to say it, but I suspect there is a lot of hostility towards desktop search.

The people who know what's going on hate it.

The people who don't know what's going on don't know how to use it.

The number of people who actually both know about it, and know how to use it, is vanishingly small ...

At the end of the day (and I speak as a database guy) my attitude to much of this is "too much data, not enough information, the signal-to-noise is so poor we shouldn't be keeping all this crap!".

Cheers,
Wol

Remote execution in the GNOME tracker

Posted Oct 15, 2023 12:18 UTC (Sun) by sam.thursfield (subscriber, #94496) [Link]

This comment is something of a work of art.