Re: Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

2017-04-29 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > As discussed at the end of yesterday's Desktop Team meeting, I'd like > to update Ubuntu's default file manager nautilus from 3.20 to 3.24 for > Ubuntu 17.10. Nautilus 3.24 is now in Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha. As announced

Re: Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

2017-04-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:07 AM, Marco Trevisan wrote: > If so, maybe it would be worth to do some kind of migration script that > imports your recent unity activities to tracker, if possible. My understanding is that tracker is a file indexer and Zeitgeist is an

Re: Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

2017-04-21 Thread Tim
On 21/04/17 08:50, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Hey Jeremy, thanks for the reply, Le 20/04/2017 à 16:11, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : 3. Several GNOME apps depend on tracker. If you don't have them in the default install, many users will install at least one of them anyway. Bijiben, Boxes, Documents,

Re: Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

2017-04-21 Thread Marco Trevisan
Il 20/04/2017 22:11, Jeremy Bicha ha scritto: > 1. The Activities Overview support Search Providers which are perhaps > a bit like Unity Scopes. Without tracker, the nautilus search provider > won't work so you won't be able to search your files from the > Activities Overview. I guess there's no

Re: Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

2017-04-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Hi, I'll let someone else handle more of the technical details here. On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > - what's the difference in user experience with/without it I believe it is possible to run GNOME Shell without tracker but here are a few issues:

Re: Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

2017-04-20 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey there, Le 28/02/2017 à 18:37, Sebastien Bacher a écrit : > Enabling tracker is going to be a bigger discussion (which is started > in bug #176 ), before > deciding we should at least do disk/battery usage testing on a slow > config with rotational

Re: Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

2017-02-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey Jeremy, Le 22/02/2017 à 14:45, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : > As discussed at the end of yesterday's Desktop Team meeting, I'd like > to update Ubuntu's default file manager nautilus from 3.20 to 3.24 for > Ubuntu 17.10. That sounds like a good idea, by updating to 3.20 we made the step to go to

Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

2017-02-22 Thread Jeremy Bicha
As discussed at the end of yesterday's Desktop Team meeting, I'd like to update Ubuntu's default file manager nautilus from 3.20 to 3.24 for Ubuntu 17.10. The new version offers several visible improvements. Highlights include: - The view menu has been consolidated into a single "hamburger" menu