[Announce] Simple Search Tool
 

A temporary plug for a temporary hole. Simple Tracker-wide search (not system wide since by default Tracker only indexes /home/user/MyDocs and /media/mmc1). I basically got Tracker-search-tool which is lately written in Genie, converted it to Vala, replaced the SparQL queries (in 0.7) with the old RDF ones (0.6, which we have) and severely butchered and hildonized the interface. The result is silently sitting in Extras-devel for the brave to try (and to disable your Extras-devel after that :)). Its called Search Tool.

Please don't blame me if your tablet explodes and kills your dog. I'm not responsible for that... (but I have a plan) :D

Some catches:

• Open with... uses content-type of the file to detect its possible recipients, I'm almost sure Gweled can't handle text/plain :)
• Folders unfortunately can't be opened in File Manager because of a bug that will be fixed probably after Fremantle :) The tool however helpfully opens the said File Manager for you to navigate further :D
• I didn't test everything, probably most of it doesn't work, feel free to spot some bugs and vote for features (though I already know what you will vote for :)).

Mandatory screens:
http://bundyo.org/maemo/shots/search...ain_window.png
http://bundyo.org/maemo/shots/searchtool_context.png
http://bundyo.org/maemo/shots/searchtool_open_with.png

The package is optified, approximately 100k installed and 50k download.

Have phun.

Re: [Announce] Simple Search Tool
 

Thanks! I've been using this for a couple of days now... works great. :o)

Old file manager bugs that will only be fixed after fremantle really annoy me! grr!!!

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Maybe I've been wrong about how old the bug is, however it seems to exist in Maemo 5 from the start, but never reported since. I've filed it, please vote for bug 8987.

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In Maemo 4, it would refuse to go to the folder (rather going to the folder above it) instead of crashing.

Oh, if you ever feel like the clear button in the HildonEntry has a place, I butchered SexyIconEntry in the Transmission sources to make it use HildonEntry instead. ;) (Although, Map Buddy has a slightly improved version of the butchered Transmission one...)

Re: [Announce] Simple Search Tool
 

Thanks,Bundyo.

I thought it would help me search on additional fields in the contact info, other than name and surname.It does not seem to search i contacts at all.Am I missing something?

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Yes, I couldn't get Tracker to search in contacts.

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Don't forget the Link to find the application easily, not only on the device: search tool :)

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I think this GUI, is better


http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5388/ciaort.jpg

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@Bundyo


If I do a tracker-search from xterm, it shows the the following services.
Documents
Emails
EmailAttachements
Music
Images
Videos
Text
Development
Applications
Conversations
Folders
Files

In the search tool you dont have
Emails
EmailAttachments
Development

Any reason? otherwise a useful app:)

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These categories return nothing unfortunately.

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ok cheers

also any chance we can have a custom open with dialog.
i would like to use pygtk editor to open my py files :D

I see that PR1.2 still only uses 0.6 release of tracker :(

Re: [Announce] Simple Search Tool
 

If everyone fixes their .desktop files, the world will be a better place. :) Until then you can file a bug to the PyGTKEditor developer to handle mime types like text/plain. Or alternatively you can edit /usr/share/applications/hildon/pytgkeditor.desktop and add a line with:

then run as root:

and try again to open it.

While on the subject - Flandry, can you please remove mime type text/plain from your games? Thanks in advance.

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sorry, maybe I described it wrong. py files open with the plan text editor at the moment, and works fine. It would be nice to select my own tool to open whatever the mime type is.

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I'll think about it. Another Open With... in the menu... What about an option to disregard the mime type?

Re:Simple Search Tool
 

Hi,
I wish to have a look at this application. Is this available for download?

Thanks.

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Its in Extras.

Re: [Announce] Simple Search Tool
 

Hello Bundyo,
I installed the .deb file on Maemo emulator. But when i try to run the application, error appears as "Unable to install 'Search tool'. Incompatible application package".

Can u help in this matter?

Thanks.

Re: [Announce] Simple Search Tool
 

The package is armel only.

Well, the screenshots show most of it, there's also the category chooser and that's all.

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Hi Bundyo. I would like to know where the files I am searching for are located on the disk. I don't know if its possible, but could you add something like "Details" that shows the location of the file that has been found? I know when you open the file it says "opening /home/user/MyDocs/..." but it disappears too quickly.

Thanks for the great app!

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Well, there was such a panel in the desktop version but I removed it due to not much space. I'll see what I can do when the deadline at work passes.

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Hello first thanks for this nice app.

I would apreciate too an option to see the path. maybe this could be a field called "propertie" in the contextual menu.
My own request, I wich you could add an option in the contextual menu to delete a file and another one to share it (like in the file explorer by mail or via service). It would be very great.
thanks for reading.

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yeah i just installed this and it was disappointing that i couldn't see the path, I will keep the app anyways though, thanks!