[GTALUG] desktop search in GNOME

[Matt Price]

A quick partial answer -- I found this tracker search provider extension
for gnome-shell:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/783/tracker-search-provider/

It doesn't work with GNOME 3.22 out of the box, but downloading the source
code and changing the shell-version in metadata.json and copying the files
to .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/tracker-search-provider at sinnix.de as
suggested in the README seems to work.  it's not bad. I'm looking forward
to integrating this into emacs now...

Would love to hear success stories with recoll, or comparisons of tracker &
recoll if people have them.


On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk <
talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 2016-10-22 10:58 AM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> >
> > Setting the default to off is exactly what a UX designer might do.
>
> Given that Linux is a developer/sysadmin do-ocracy*, I'd be surprised if
> there are any UX folks involved. Filesystem indexing chews disk space
> and CPU, so I can easily some maintainer going eek and turning
> everything useful off.
>
> User-focused commercial OSes enable desktop search by default, so I
> guess this just isn't the year of Linux On The Desktop yet … (a tired
> joke since at least 2001). Jef Raskin produced systems in the 1980s
> (SwyftWare, 1983; Canon CAT, 1987) with "Leap Keys" to do the equivalent
> of desktop search. So this is hardly a cutting-edge need.
>
> My last experience with installing search daemons on Ubuntu was not
> good. One would silently fail if it found UTF-8 text. Another was
> clearly maintained by someone with either a much smaller or much faster
> system than me, as it ran cron jobs at very high priority that never
> finished before the next update was triggered. Basically meant my
> machine ran like molasses after an hour and needed the indexer processes
> killed.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
>
> *: case in point - “Debian New Maintainers' Guide”
> <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/> is all about being a
> good Debian citizen and developer, and nothing to do with user experience.
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