Hey Jeremy, - Initial indexing (How long does it take? Does it make the computer noticeably less responsive?)
I already tried to reply this to Jorge, it does depend. Depends on the amount of files and disk throughput. - Search (Is search in Nautilus more or less responsive with tracker? How noticeable is the difference?) Full-text search in Tracker is fairly optimized, plain FTS queries usually take ~30-50ms across multiple thousands of indexed documents. This is fast enough for search-as-you-type as nautilus uses it, and definitely faster than the recursive filename matching paths. Hi Martin, - Is it acceptable to have approximate search results if the indexing isn't (yet) up to date? If tracker-miner-fs is not paused/throttled down, it will pick up changes in monitored folders just as fast as any other app, there is very little extra overhead above the gio/inotify delays. - Does it significantly affect battery life? Given Tracker is pretty conservative while on battery, that's a bold "no". However "acceptable" or "significant" something is is entirely in the eye of the beholder. It's not news that there's a trade off between instantness and cpu/battery, Tracker can't get the best of both worlds at the same time. -- 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
