[Thunar-dev] Desktop Search / Tagging in Thunar, again

mcquaid mcquaid mcquaidster at gmail.com
Fri Oct 20 02:11:24 CEST 2006


Just a user not a dev, but this sounds really interesting, going to try it
out.  I really hope this could be intergrated into thunar.

On 10/19/06, Erlend Davidson <E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> (Meta)Tracker 0.0.5 (http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/) is coming
> out very soon.  This is like Beagle, with tagging, but it uses much less
> resources (and follows freedesktop.org standards
> [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker]).  I am running the
> current version from CVS and it is very fast as the developer claims.
>
> Although it is a Gnome project there are no Gnome dependencies unless
> you install the GUI (tracker-search-tool).  I've only used tracker from
> the command-line.
>
> I think there is limited support for tracker filesystems (this was a
> Google Summer of Code Project: http://code.google.com/p/trackerfs/)
> which contain the results of query.
>
> Development is still at an early stage, but do you think this might get
> integrated into Thunar at some stage?  It does the tagging discussed a
> couple of months ago (RE: Leaftag / GLSCube), and has fast searching.
>
> Erlend
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