This is fixed with nautilus 1:3.30.4-1ubuntu1 and later in Disco
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nautilus (1:3.30.4-1ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium
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* Depend on tracker instead of Suggests. It is no longer optional.
(Closes: #908800)
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
** No longer affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #908800
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908800
** Also affects: nautilus (Debian) via
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908800
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666676
Title:
Install tracker by default
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in nautilus package in Debian:
Unknown
Bug description:
Benefits
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1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.
2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
just by filename.
3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.
4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
is noticed by a lot of people.
Other Info
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You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear
button. (LP: #1702878)
How to Install
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Until this is installed by default, you can install it yourself. Run this
command in a terminal then log out and log back in (LP: #1697769):
sudo apt install tracker
Original Bug Report
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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.
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