[GTALUG] desktop search in GNOME

[Matt Price]

Yeah,. It's lamentable.  I can't even find decent documentation for how to
set it up oneself. I don't understand why that would have disappeared too.

On Oct 21, 2016 8:42 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> Hi Matt -
>
> > I've been using GNOME for a long time and am used to it, but the desktop
> > search functionality is pretty limited. In my current installation it
> > doesn't seem like tracker is integrated into the "windows" key search --
> > but from what I read it's supposed to be.
>
> I'm in the same boat with Ubuntu. Tracker - or an equivalent - *used* to
> be set up. I'd say about 2-3 years ago, desktop search on my machine was
> comparable to Windows or Mac OS Spotlight: hit the hotkey, start typing,
> and files containing your search term would appear. Now, at best I get
> files with the search term *in the filename only*.
>
> This is NBG. I have lots of files, and I'm a fairly messy person. A big
> heap of files with searchable contents *should* be indexed, and not by me.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
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