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[KarlRelton <karllinuxtest.relton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakob

There is a trade-off between 'locate' and 'tracker'.

locate:
  + will actually find more files than other solutions, including files not in your home directory (and not owned by you)
  - Issue with encrypted home directory (?)
  - relies on a daemon which by default runs just once a day (though you could tweak this up yourself if needed)
  - searching can be slower


tracker:
  - will only find files in directories that it watches (a subset of places)
  - some worry about the background performance penalty running tracker imposes
  ++ can search on both filenames, their metadata content, and their real text content


Its that last ++ that is so attractive to me. I did actually get the prototype tracker lens of #71 compiled and running in 12.04 (does need mods to work with latest Unity API) and it works reasonably well.

Unfortunately I don't have the time myself to get it properly working
and release worthy, but if someone could be persuaded to at least polish
the current code it could then be installed along with Tracker for users
who want it.

The next step would then be to write a combo tracker/zeitgeist lens that
combines the search power of tracker with the relevancy of zeitgeist.
Such a beast should be possible, and for those users who like to install
Tracker would give them a top class search on their tracker-indexed
directories.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724

Title:
  not all files show up in files-place

Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity 2D:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity Files Lens:
  Fix Released
Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
  Invalid
Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources:
  Invalid
Status in “unity-lens-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The Unity interface, with its files-place feature for user access to
  files/documents etc. is really great.

  However there is a problem since the search feature relies wholly on
  zeitgeist (AFAIK), in the zeitgeist is not tracking everything.

  E.g. in openoffice, I create a new file (or open an existing one) from
  within openoffice itself. This file does not show up, presumably
  because openoffice does not (yet) push its activity to zeitgeist.

  I guess any number of other programs could suffer the same problem.

  For the average user, this is surely going to be confusing. They will
  create documents via legitimate means ('New ...' buttons in their
  applications), and then expect to be able to search for them in the
  Unity files-place interface.

  To avoid this confusion I would guess there really needs to be a
  filesystem watcher on the home dir (or key folders within it) so that
  zeitgeist is aware of activity caused by non-zeitgeist-aware
  applications.

  (See also bug 897393, about warning users that the search doesn't
  search all files.)

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