[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Mathew Hodson]

** Bug watch removed: GNOME Bug Tracker #782562
   https://gitlab.gnome.org/782562

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nautilus package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Benefits
  

  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.

  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
  can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
  just by filename.

  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.

  4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
  GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
  is noticed by a lot of people.

  Other Info
  --
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear 
button. (LP: #1702878)

  How to Install
  ==
  Until this is installed by default, you can install it yourself. Run this 
command in a terminal then log out and log back in (LP: #1697769):

  sudo apt install tracker

  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Bug Watch Updater]

** Changed in: nautilus (Debian)
   Status: Unknown => Fix Released

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nautilus package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Benefits
  

  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.

  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
  can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
  just by filename.

  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.

  4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
  GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
  is noticed by a lot of people.

  Other Info
  --
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear 
button. (LP: #1702878)

  How to Install
  ==
  Until this is installed by default, you can install it yourself. Run this 
command in a terminal then log out and log back in (LP: #1697769):

  sudo apt install tracker

  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Mathew Hodson]

This is fixed with nautilus 1:3.30.4-1ubuntu1 and later in Disco
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nautilus (1:3.30.4-1ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

[...]

  * Depend on tracker instead of Suggests. It is no longer optional.
(Closes: #908800)

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** No longer affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #908800
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908800

** Also affects: nautilus (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908800
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nautilus package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Benefits
  

  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.

  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
  can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
  just by filename.

  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.

  4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
  GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
  is noticed by a lot of people.

  Other Info
  --
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear 
button. (LP: #1702878)

  How to Install
  ==
  Until this is installed by default, you can install it yourself. Run this 
command in a terminal then log out and log back in (LP: #1697769):

  sudo apt install tracker

  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[step21]

This bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/1545924
should be addressed first before tracker is installed by default. Or is
it already? (this is a duplicate bug, but the original is private for
whatever reasons) For me this bug happens on multiple machines, at every
login.

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Benefits
  

  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.

  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
  can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
  just by filename.

  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.

  4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
  GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
  is noticed by a lot of people.

  Other Info
  --
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear 
button. (LP: #1702878)

  How to Install
  ==
  Until this is installed by default, you can install it yourself. Run this 
command in a terminal then log out and log back in (LP: #1697769):

  sudo apt install tracker

  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Description changed:

  Benefits
  
  
  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.
  
  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you can
  look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching just by
  filename.
  
  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.
  
  4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
  GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
  is noticed by a lot of people.
  
  Other Info
  --
- You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear button.
+ You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear 
button. (LP: #1702878)
+ 
+ How to Install
+ ==
+ Until this is installed by default, you can install it yourself. Run this 
command in a terminal then log out and log back in (LP: #1697769):
+ 
+ sudo apt install tracker
  
  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.
  
  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)
  
  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See this
  patch:
  
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch
  
  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Benefits
  

  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.

  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
  can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
  just by filename.

  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.

  4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
  GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
  is noticed by a lot of people.

  Other Info
  --
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear 
button. (LP: #1702878)

  How to Install
  ==
  Until this is installed by default, you can install it yourself. Run this 
command in a terminal then log out and log back in (LP: #1697769):

  sudo apt install tracker

  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Description changed:

  Benefits
  
  
  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.
  
  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you can
  look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching just by
  filename.
  
  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.
+ 
+ 4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
+ GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
+ is noticed by a lot of people.
  
  Other Info
  --
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear button.
  
  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.
  
  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)
  
  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See this
  patch:
  
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch
  
  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Benefits
  

  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.

  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
  can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
  just by filename.

  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.

  4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
  GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
  is noticed by a lot of people.

  Other Info
  --
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear button.

  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Description changed:

- For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use
- tracker for search.
+ Benefits
+ 
+ 
+ 1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.
+ 
+ 2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you can
+ look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching just by
+ filename.
+ 
+ 3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
+ based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
+ properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.
+ 
+ Other Info
+ --
+ You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear button.
+ 
+ Original Bug Report
+ ===
+ For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.
  
  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)
  
  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See this
  patch:
  
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch
  
  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Benefits
  

  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.

  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
  can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
  just by filename.

  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.

  Other Info
  --
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear button.

  Original Bug Report
  ===
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use 
tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Khurshid Alam]

[Sorry for late reply, I didn't get any notification]


>Because nobody provided patches. I will welcome yours at
>https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=tracker

> What are 'vendor' folders at all?
 vendor: Composer (php librarry manager) dumps libraries into vendor folder in 
the same directory where `composer update` is called. This is default behavior 
of composer. One way to think of the vendor directory is as a more generic form 
of "lib"

I filed a bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782562


>how did you measure the impact of these
>modifications? Did you reindex from scratch after every modification?

First time I ran tracker never stopped indexing. I monitored tracker-
miner-fs.log and also with (/usr/libexec/tracker-extract -v 2). At some
point you would expect logging to stop when it becomes idle. But it
didn't. Only after tweaking and hard resetting situation improved
dramatically. I found similar bugs on bugzilla, I will comment there.

>I have the feeling here and other places above that you are
>extrapolating personal usecases to entire user bases.

Perhaps yes. But my intention is to put indexing at minimal level. In
previous version of tracker I used with Ubuntu Gnome, meta.db in
~/.cache used to grow over 1 GB. Again I found the relative bug and will
continue discussion over there. Let's not pollute this bug discussing
tracker issues.



** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #782562
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782562

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Carlos Garnacho]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Khurshid Alam
 wrote:
> @Carlos Garnacho
>
> I have tested this on a low-end laptops first with no tracker and then
> with tracker installed with default configuration (and there our problem
> lies.) The default configuration is just unacceptable.

https://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GSettings.html#id-1.4.19.2.9.25

>
> 1. Why does tracker index bzr, vendor, pycache folders by default? I put

Because nobody provided patches. I will welcome yours at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=tracker

What are 'vendor' folders at all?

> my git projects inside documents. You can literally see that with
> tracker daemon -f. Also, It should ignore any directory starting with
> "." by default

It does ignore hidden files/folders, both unix and msdos style on vfat
mounts

>
> 2. There are many other configuration available in Gsettings which
> aren't exposed in GUI.

As far as Tracker is concerned, UI is part of the integrator. The
tracker-preferences executable is a relic and will be eventually
discontinued.

>
> 3. I configure following things:
> -- enable-writeback false
> -- index-optical-discs false
> -- index-on-battery false
> -- index-removable-devices false
> -- ignored-directories ['core-dumps', 'CVS', 'lost+found', 'po', 
> 'vendor', '.git']
> -- ignore-stop-words true
> -- ignore-numbers true
> -- max-words-to-index 1000
> -- removable-days-threshold 3 ? (I don't not understand this)

- You seem to reset a bunch of those settings to their default:
index-optical-discs, index-removable-devices, ignore-stop-words,
ignore-numbers and removable-days-threshold
- You added 'vendor' to ignored-directories, good. Adding '.git' is
both useless and needless though, the hidden directory will be ignored
by default anyway, what you want (and the default) is having '.git' on
ignored-directories-with-content, so the parent directory is ignored
(and thus the whole cloned repo).
- The remaining settings (enable-writeback, index-on-battery,
max-words-to-index), how did you measure the impact of these
modifications? Did you reindex from scratch after every modification?
What were you aiming to measure, system responsivity, indexing
responsitivity, cpu usage, ... ?

>
> After this the system is somewhat working well. There are no aggressive
> indexing. All files can still be searched from shell. Documents, Bijiben
> etc works without any problems.

Perhaps you've just left initial indexing to happen? Tracker is
obviously smart enough to avoid reindexing stuff for the sake of it,
after initial indexing happened it will sit idle most of the time
unless there's file monitor events to attend to. Also, checking an
unmodified, up-to-date directory tree (as it usually happens on miner
startup) is orders of magnitude faster than indexing it from scratch.

>
> There are many options which can be disabled during compilation. For
> example extractor metadata for ps.gz, gif, iso, xps, abw seems pretty
> useless to me (who use it and why?). These can be disabled during
> compilation.

I have the feeling here and other places above that you are
extrapolating personal usecases to entire user bases. Not indexing
.iso files will eg. limit functionality of gnome-boxes. As for the
other document/image formats, how can you tell at all they are
useless? Would you think it's fair not to index the content of these
documents for users that actually possess those?

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Khurshid Alam]

@Carlos Garnacho

I have tested this on a low-end laptops first with no tracker and then
with tracker installed with default configuration (and there our problem
lies.) The default configuration is just unacceptable.

1. Why does tracker index bzr, vendor, pycache folders by default? I put
my git projects inside documents. You can literally see that with
tracker daemon -f. Also, It should ignore any directory starting with
"." by default

2. There are many other configuration available in Gsettings which
aren't exposed in GUI.

3. I configure following things:
-- enable-writeback false 
-- index-optical-discs false
-- index-on-battery false
-- index-removable-devices false 
-- ignored-directories ['core-dumps', 'CVS', 'lost+found', 'po', 'vendor', 
'.git']
-- ignore-stop-words true
-- ignore-numbers true
-- max-words-to-index 1000
-- removable-days-threshold 3 ? (I don't not understand this)

After this the system is somewhat working well. There are no aggressive
indexing. All files can still be searched from shell. Documents, Bijiben
etc works without any problems.

There are many options which can be disabled during compilation. For
example extractor metadata for ps.gz, gif, iso, xps, abw seems pretty
useless to me (who use it and why?). These can be disabled during
compilation.

I will keep testing but I believe tracker can be enabled in Ubuntu with
proper default settings keeping it at absolute minimal level.

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

Without tracker, Videos in your Downloads/ or Music/ or Videos/ folders
won't automatically show up on the main page of the Videos app (totem).
Instead, you have to click the + button and explicitly add them.

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

Hi, here's a quick update. Nautilus 3.24 is in Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha now. I
dropped ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch because it does not make
sense any more (it enabled some features based on whether GNOME was the
current desktop).

Nautilus does have several features that will only work if tracker is 
installed. The biggest 2 features for Ubuntu I see are:
- File search in GNOME Shell's Activities Overview (GNOME's equivalent of 
Unity's Dash)
- I'm told that search is much, much faster in indexed directories and that 
people will complain that search is slow after removing type-ahead if tracker 
is not installed.

My understanding is that every other GNOME distro includes tracker by
default (except maybe Gentoo).

Does tracker have bugs? Sure. Do people hate tracker for various
reasons? Yes. But I haven't seen anyone in this discussion point to a
current, specific, actionable bug reports where tracker is causing
significant problems.

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Summary changed:

- Enable tracker by default for Unity too
+ Install tracker by default

** Also affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #181)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  
desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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