Cardapio

Why does the file search plugin require Tracker 0.9+?

Asked by Jan

File search is a great function but why doesn’t it work with the already installed Tracker 0.8?

guido-iodice made me aware that Maverick ships only 0.8.16 as well.

(I am almost sure you explained this somewhere but I can’t find it.)

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Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice) said : 		#1

Hi, I confirm that this is an issue. Cardapio should be compatible with packaged shipped by Ubuntu.
Please, note that the tracker 0.9.x series is marked as "unstable" upstream.

Thank you.

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Jan (jancborchardt-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Changing back to open. ;)

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Best Thiago Teixeira (tvst) said : 		#3

Good question. I made this decision a long time ago, before Cardapio went public, and didn't really write down my reasons.

The main reason, is that I simply *couldn't* get it to work with 0.8.x . Then I gave 0.9.x a try and it was pretty straight forward from there.

The thing is that I don't remember what the exact problem was with 0.8.x . Oops :-/

Since then, I also interacted with the Tracker guys and got them to implement a SPARQL method that allows substring searches to be case insensitive. I don't know if 0.8.x is able to do this, but I assume it isn't (since 0.9.x wasn't either).

But, excuses aside, the REAL reason is simply that nobody so far bothered to write a plugin for Tracker 0.8.x . If someone does, I'll gladly add it to Cardapio.

Otherwise, I may give it another try at some point, but probably won't have the time for at least a couple of months...

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Jan (jancborchardt-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Thanks tvst, that solved my question.

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Thiago Teixeira (tvst) said : 		#5

I just installed Maverick (clean install) and tried Tracker 0.8.17 again and remembered something else: I could never get Tracker 0.8.x to work at all.

It just indexes for ever, taking up 100% of my CPU, and Tracker Search Tool never returns any results.

If anyone knows how to make 0.8.x work, let me know and I will give it another shot. Otherwise, it just seems to be completely broken, which is another reason why 0.9.x is a better target...

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Thiago Teixeira (tvst) said : 		#6

Ok, now it should work with Tracker 0.8.7 too (which is the default in Maverick). Try the bzr trunk version or just wait for the PPA release soon.