Thanks again!! Just out of curiosity, does all this Tracker magic work
on a GNOME 2 desktop? It may be some time before the GNOME 3 desktop
works well in a virtual machine, so my appliances are stuck at 2.32
for the moment.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ivan Frade <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Adrien Bustany <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:13:37 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>>
>>> Is the "query language" of tracker-needle defined somewhere? I'm
>>> thinking of something like search.twitter.com/advanced, where they
>>> tell you how to build a query. Or is it "like Google" - you type stuff
>>> in and the search engine figures out exactly what you meant? ;-)
>
> The query language in tracker-needle is the FTS query language of
> SQLite. Basically it supports word, prefix-search ("word*"), AND, OR
> and NOT. Some documentation available here:
>
> http://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html#section_3
>
>  AFAIK we are using FTS3. Maybe is time to take a look into FTS4.
>
>  Regards,
>
> Ivan
>
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Adrien
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Ivan Frade <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Edward,
>>>>
>>>>> a. Where the configuration files and log files are, so I can set the
>>>>> logging verbosity to 2. ;-)
>>>>> b. How to use "tracker-preferences" to set up what filesystems to index.
>>>>> c. How to nuke the Tracker database and re-index using
>>>>> "tracker-control" on the command line.
>>>>> d. How to do a search with "tracker-needle".
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks for your feedback as "first time user" of Tracker. We had more
>>>> comments about our poor "first 5 minutes" experience and we definitely
>>>> want to improve it.
>>>>
>>>>  I have gathered this information in a wiki page:
>>>> http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/First5Minutes
>>>>
>>>>  I hope we can complete that page. Feel free to add more questions
>>>> there (we can complete/correct the answers if needed).
>>>>
>>>>  I guess we should add few entries about "RSS miner" and "Other
>>>> miners" (UPnp, Twitter...). Actually all those extras should be listed
>>>> in this wiki page:
>>>> http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/Family
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks again for your comments,
>>>>
>>>> Ivan
>>>>
>>
>>
>



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