Index: docs/manpages/trackerd.1 =================================================================== --- docs/manpages/trackerd.1 (revision 2825) +++ docs/manpages/trackerd.1 (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH trackerd 1 "July 2007" GNU "User Commands" +.TH trackerd 1 "Jan 2008" GNU "User Commands" .SH NAME trackerd \- indexer daemon for tracker search tool @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ needs a to be running within your current session. .SH SEE ALSO +.BR tracker-applet (1), .BR tracker-search-tool (1), .BR tracker-search (1), .BR tracker-tag (1), Index: README =================================================================== --- README (revision 2825) +++ README (working copy) @@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ Table of Contents 6.1 Usage 6.2 Setting Inotify Watch Limit 6.3 Tracker files - 7 Tracker & Nautilus Search - 8 Tracker & Deskbar applet - 9 Tracker tools + 7 Integration with other tools + 7.1 Nautilus search + 7.2 Deskbar applet + 8 Tracker tools 1 Introduction @@ -42,11 +43,12 @@ Table of Contents Supported first class objects include: * Files, Documents, Music, Images, Videos, Applications, Emails, - Conversations, History, Playlists + Conversations, Playlists Planned support: - * Appointments, Contacts, Projects, Tasks, Bookmarks, Notes + * Appointments, Contacts, Projects, Tasks, Bookmarks, Notes, + Firefox Web History All discussion related to tracker happens on the Tracker mailing list @@ -343,8 +345,10 @@ Table of Contents session data. -7 Tracker & Nautilus Search +7 Integration with other tools +7.1 Nautilus Search + Once you have installed Tracker and have some indexed contents, you should now compile Nautilus (ver 2.13.4 or higher) which should auto-detect that Tracker is installed and automatically @@ -358,17 +362,26 @@ Table of Contents /usr/bin/trackerd). For non-GNOME installations, see the desktop docs for how to achieve similar. +7.2 Deskbar applet -8 Tracker & Deskbar applet + Tracker is also integrated in GNOME's deskbar applet. + + Here are the compile options on how to get it built: - Tracker is also integrated in GNOME's deskbar applet. See - Compile Options above on how to get it built. + --enable-deskbar-applet=(auto, handler, module) : enables + Deskbar-applet support; 'auto' should do since it automatically + chooses whether to install the 'handler' (for Deskbar-applet + >=2.16) or the 'module' (for Deskbar-applet >=2.19) + + --with-deskbar-applet-dir=(directory where Deskbar-applet + should find tracker-handler; this should be automatically + detected, perhaps in + /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/{handlers,modules-2.20-compatible}) -9 Tracker Tools +8 Tracker Tools The Tracker distribution comes with a number of useful utilities which are listed at the bottom of trackerd man page, "man trackerd". It's recommended that you use the "--help" command line switch - (e.g., "tracker-services --help") for a more up-to-date usage info. - + (e.g., "tracker-services --help") for more up-to-date usage info. Index: TODO =================================================================== --- TODO (revision 2825) +++ TODO (working copy) @@ -1,28 +1,32 @@ General: - * XESAM integration -* Indexer backend independence (not just rely on SQLite) * Automatic language detection Application support: - * Balsa mboxes * Brasero integration * Epiphany integration (bookmarks and history) * Rhythmbox integration * Tomboy notes indexing +* Modest, a mobile email client (much work already exists in svn trunk) Search: - * Search filtering (e.g. search within specific folders) * Search results that update in real time * Search within archives -* "exact phrase" search -* Wildcard search +Internal: +* Crawler to move to Indexer +* FTS support (replacement of QDBM, the current index db) + -> enables "exact phrase" searches + -> enables wildcard searches + -> enables prefix searches (pre*) +* Denormalised tables +* Better libtracker support for Maemo platform applications? -Tracker SoC project ideas: +2007 Tracker SoC project ideas: + 1. HAL integration into Tracker * We need to be able to handle files in removable media Index: NEWS =================================================================== --- NEWS (revision 2825) +++ NEWS (working copy) @@ -12,15 +12,18 @@ Tracker 0.6.90 GLib's GIO usage * In-house file monitoring dropped. * Addition of unit tests. - * TST (GUI search) migrated away from the deprecated gnome-vfs2 + * TST (GUI search) migrated away from the deprecated gnome-vfs2. Miscellaneous - * Added support for indexing removable media. - * Added support for the mobile email client, Modest. This adds to Evolution, - Thunderbird, and KMail, among supported clients. + * Added support for indexing removable media (MMC, USB sticks). * Added support for OR search operations. * Initial xesam support. * New functionality to estimate remaining indexing time period. + * NB (index merging has been removed in this release due to lack of + time re-implementing it after code refactoring; SQLite FTS, which + has the feature internally, will be used in future releases). + * support for metadata caching on removable devices + (see http://live.gnome.org/MetadataOnRemovableDevices) Tracker 0.6.6