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. -- 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: Install tracker by default Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntu-meta 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
