Tracker – What do we do now we’re stable?

Over the past month or two, I’ve spent time working on various feature branches for Tracker. This coming after a 1.2 stable release and a new feature set which was added in 1.2. So a lot has been going on with Tracker internally. I’ve been relatively quiet on my blog of late and I thought it …

tracker-search gets colour & snippets!

Recently Carlos added FTS4 and snippet support to Tracker. We merged that to master after doing some tests and have reduced the database size on disk by doing this. I released 0.15.2 yesterday with the FTS4 work, and today I decided to add a richer experience to tracker-search. Below you can see me searching for …

Tracker Needle with improved tagging

Given there have been a number of improvements to tracker-needle recently, I thought I would make a video to highlight some of them. A quick summary: Searching for “foo” now finds files tagged with “foo” Searches are limited to 500 items per category/query (to avoid abusing the GtkTreeView mainly) A tag list is now available …

Improved Tracker Preferences for Indexed Locations

Something I have been meaning to do for a long time, is to update the preferences dialog for Tracker to easily add locations which are special user directories (as per the GUserDirectory locations). I wanted to do this in such a way that: It was really easy to toggle locations as recursive or not The …

Tracker 0.12.0 Released!

Given we (the tracker team) want to try to fit into the GNOME schedule for 3.2, we decided to bring the release of 0.12.0 ahead early. The roadmap is mostly complete anyway. The official announcement can be seen here. Thank you to everyone involved! Recently I also updated the GtkSearchEngineTracker implementation to not use hacky …

Tracker extensions for Firefox & Thunderbird

Recently Adrien Bustany blogged about the Firefox extension for Tracker and has yet to blog about his Thunderbird extension work. As you would expect, the Firefox extension syncs bookmarks to Tracker (in that direction only for now) and the Thunderbird extension sends email to Tracker to be indexed (even full text content of emails which …

GTK+ website redesign finally finished!

I have blogged about this from the official GTK+ blog too, but I wanted to really say personally how happy I am that this is done now. Really great work from Devin Samarin especially with the gtk-doc integration which looks like an extension of the main website instead of a separately maintained project. If anyone …

Continuing to support LibreOffice

Oracle donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation? I was quite surprised to hear about this move from Oracle. My impression is that this is a last attempt to keep OpenOffice.org alive. It’s too little too late in my opinion. Factoring in that the community chose to fork and that several major distros (if not most) …