On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 14:34 +0000, Peter Tribble wrote: > >> Tracker doesn't work for me. There's an icon, I type in text, it > never finds > >> anything. > > By default, tracker only search .desktop file > in /usr/share/appliations. > > You have to change the setting to let it index your $HOME. > > But how? What setting, using which application? I click on the icon to > launch > the search tool, I can't see anything that looks like settings or > options. > > With the settings as it is, tracker isn't much use. So the icon > shouldn't be > sat prominently on the toolbar by default, or if it's left there it > should start up > in a 'first time user' mode where you get to configure it. Hi Peter,
You can find the preference at 'System'->Preferences->'File Indexing'. I also CCed Jerry Tan. He is the developer of tracker. Regards, Jedy
