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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