On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> please have a look:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch ayxcvbn.txt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tracker-search ayxcv
> 
> -> no results when searching for a partial file-name ?!
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
> 
> fine -- works with a full file-name without extension.
> 
> now make a new filename - the same as above but with an underscore:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch ayxcvbn_go.txt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn_go.txt
> 
> now I got all results !
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tracker-search ayxcvb
> 
> but for a partial filename -> no results but for 
> 
> a "full" part of a filename it works:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn_go.txt
> 
> 
> any hints ?
> I think searching for filenames should have a similar behavior as locate
> which searchs for  "*file*"
> in this way it could be an "always up to date replacement" for locate
> and an essential behavior when used in a filemanager.
> 
> 
> I'm using tracker 0.6.4
> 

wildcard suport is on the way so you will be able to search for abc* for
everything and not just filenames

for an app thats only interested in filenames then you can already do
these wildcard searches (using tracker-query)

jamie


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