diff -ru tracker-website_4966/development.html tracker-website/development.html --- tracker-website_4966/development.html 2007-01-30 17:05:07.000000000 +0200 +++ tracker-website/development.html 2007-01-30 21:11:57.000000000 +0200 @@ -36,15 +36,15 @@

Development

-Currently Tracker 0.5.5 is in development with work ongoing to bring in new services like emails. +Currently, Tracker 0.5.5 is in development with ongoing work to support other services, like email.

Hacking

The development code is available from the gnome svn, to check out:

Retrieve current development code with the following command:

svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/trunk

BUGS!!

Bugs!!

To report a bug you can use:

the bugzilla on gnome http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=tracker

Documentation

For a quickstart in how to install and run tracker read here.

For tuning how you tracker is indexing just keep on reading :) .

Tracker is under an hard development that's why we are going to cover only some of the configurations.

Tracker is under heavy development that's why we are going to cover only some of the configurations.

Choose what to index!!!

You can configure the behavior of tracker using the configuration file : ~/.Tracker/tracker.cfg.

Tarball

http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.4.tar.gz

+
Debian : experimental debian repo can be found at : "deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ unstable main" -

Ubuntu :
- - Dappper: repo "deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main" + Dapper: repo "deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main"
If your architeture is !i386 you can use "deb-src http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main" @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@
RPM (FC5/FC6): Can now be found in Fedora Extras
Gentoo: Tracker is in portage just emerge tracker to install it +
RPM (FC5/FC6): Can now be found in Fedora Extras.
Gentoo: Just "emerge tracker" to install.

diff -ru tracker-website_4966/faq.html tracker-website/faq.html --- tracker-website_4966/faq.html 2007-01-30 17:05:07.000000000 +0200 +++ tracker-website/faq.html 2007-01-30 20:57:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@

There is a GTK-based GUI known as tracker-search-tool (here's the screenshots). A QT-based one which is under development and can be downloaded from Tracker's subversion sources. -There are also other option to search using the tracker engine. Refer to Documentation. +Refer to Documentation for additional search clients.

Ok, I want to try it!!

diff -ru tracker-website_4966/features.html tracker-website/features.html --- tracker-website_4966/features.html 2007-01-30 17:05:07.000000000 +0200 +++ tracker-website/features.html 2007-01-30 19:26:43.000000000 +0200 @@ -34,10 +34,10 @@

Key Features

Supports both free text search (like Beagle/Google) as well as structured searches using RDF Query.
Responds in real time to file system changes, automaticall keeping its metadata database up to date.
Also extracts file contents as plain text and indexes them.
Responds in real time to filesystem changes, automaticaly keeping its metadata database up to date.
Extracts file contents as plain text and indexes them.
Can provide thumbnailing on the fly if a thumbnail does not currently exist.
Uses multilingual word stemmers to help find more relevant results. For example a search for motorbikes (plural) will also return results relevant to motorbike (singular)
Uses multilingual word stemmers to help find more relevant results. For example a search for motorbikes (plural) will also return results relevant to motorbike (singular).

Desktop Neutral Design

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@

Written in C for maximum efficiency.

Designed and built to run well on lower-memory systems with typically 128MB or 256MB memory. Typical RAM usage is 3-9 MB.

High performance indexer capable of indexing 100+ text files a second.

Scheduled nicely so that you can work and use your machine without noticing any slow downs

Scheduled nicely so that you can work and use your machine without noticing any slow downs.

Extractors run in separate processes, so a crash in one will not bring down the daemon.

@@ -62,15 +62,15 @@

Indexer, a lightweight daemon that extracts information from files (trackerd).
Tracker search tool, a small GUI to search for indexed data.
Command line tools for searching, querying the daemon status, and tagging
Command line tools for searching, querying the daemon status, and tagging.
libtracker, a C wrapper around the DBus API.
Full DBus API for application authors using different toolkits or programming languages
Full DBus API for application authors using different toolkits or programming languages.

Use Cases

Application-neutral and desktop-neutral tagging. Tagging support 'for free' in any application that uses tracker, such as Nautilus [8] and file-chooser dialogs.
Application-neutral and desktop-neutral tagging. Tagging support 'for free' in any application that uses tracker, such as Nautilus and file-chooser dialogs.
A cross-application metadata database. If applications chooses to use Tracker as their metadata database and indexer, they would see signifigant improvements. Users would no longer need to add a MP3 they have downloaded to Rhythmbox, nor a photo they have taken to f-spot, these items would be detected and imported automatically.
Users may completely move away from a folder-heirarchy based home folder, and instead organise their data into collections using tags. The combination of tagging support in the file-chooser, tagging awareness in Nautilus, or even a tag based filesystem using FUSE could allow radical exploration of new desktop ideas.
Improved performance. With an always running indexer application start up time could be dramatically reduced in instances where applicaions scan or parse a numer of files on disk. For example alacarte could use tracker as its desktop file parser, or rhythmbox could use tracker as its song index. In addition by using a DBus based API one can take advantage of asynchronous replies for improved GUI responsiveness.