Hi Martin, You're right. Tracker is not a replacement for type-ahead search, reducing tracker to this would be far too simplistic.
Using Tracker is however a technical decision adopted by the nautilus team, they use it in a way that doesn't even attempt to be functionally equivalent to type-ahead search. As I see it, Ubuntu has two choices: 1) Investing time/resources in updating a patch that will get bigger and trickier to rebase over time, with the downside of possible stability issues ending up in the wrong bug reporting system, being ignored or not addressed properly, and generally frustrating users. 2) Getting closer to upstream, which means accepting additional processes to get your files indexed in the background and best-effort latency upon filesystem changes, and getting a more versatile search in return. Whatever the decision is, and as far as I'm personally concerned, by all means be my guest :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666676 Title: Enable tracker by default for Unity too Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use tracker for search. This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #1666681) To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See this patch: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu- desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1666676/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
