Yeah,. It's lamentable. I can't even find decent documentation for how to set it up oneself. I don't understand why that would have disappeared too.
On Oct 21, 2016 8:42 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > Hi Matt - > > > I've been using GNOME for a long time and am used to it, but the desktop > > search functionality is pretty limited. In my current installation it > > doesn't seem like tracker is integrated into the "windows" key search -- > > but from what I read it's supposed to be. > > I'm in the same boat with Ubuntu. Tracker - or an equivalent - *used* to > be set up. I'd say about 2-3 years ago, desktop search on my machine was > comparable to Windows or Mac OS Spotlight: hit the hotkey, start typing, > and files containing your search term would appear. Now, at best I get > files with the search term *in the filename only*. > > This is NBG. I have lots of files, and I'm a fairly messy person. A big > heap of files with searchable contents *should* be indexed, and not by me. > > cheers, > Stewart > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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