Re: Instant Search on N900
 

FYI there have been a change of policy with those CLI etc packages and that shouldn't happend in the future without you knowing that the stuff you are installing doesn't create icons etc.

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

All the app does it find filenames

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

The app is included (tracker) - it's just that full text indexing has been specifically disabled (I believe it was present in early builds). Presumably there were reasons for doing that (probably performance related, but it could be due to issues with plugins for specific file formats). Your best bet is probably to open a feature request in bugzilla to request this gets re-enabled. After that, an interface would be pretty straightforward to implement. At the least we'd hopefully get an explanation for why it was disabled in the first place.

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

thanks for the advice Rob1n, I will attempt to open it in bugzilla as I have never requested anything from there before..

Cheers

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

Not that much performance related, more like battery. Full text indexing tends to occupy lots of resources and even using 10% in background it will still suck your battery dry.

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

Anyway I totally agree that we NEED a global search tool.
With such a powerful device like N900 with pleny of storage it should be quite obvious to have one program like that.

For battery usage we could implement an option to index only when connected to the power/USB cable.
But other OS/phones (like Iphone) have found the solution.
Indeed it is really strange that there is no Linux good search app like google desktop on windows platform and that no Guru programmer have coded something similar (even not so fast).

More over I don't understand why we don't take full use of the internal DB where are stored email, sms, contacts etc, making also a local search much more complete (example in company, notes field etc). We need more option to fully configure how and where we want to search.

So, at the end , PLEASE NOKIA IMPLEMENT THIS FUNCTION BETTER and AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !!

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

Hmmm. I can't believe that normal usage case (just from my hat) for indexing would occupy lots of resources. For first run surely, but if you put 5 documents and couple of songs daily. Instead lets say that you put 50 documents/emails daily and 100 songs then it could be problem.

I have no idea about this but workaround could be that tracker is launched for resource heavy content only if battery level is high enough (screen off low cpu) or if device is charging.

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

aren't there standard linux solutions for the power drain problem? i'm pretty sure that tracker on laptops doesn't index when it's on battery power.

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

for that matter, the machine where the index is built need not be the same machine that hosts the query client. one should be able to copy data from the tablet to a pc, index on the pc, copy the indexes back to the tablet, and then run searches on the tablet.

Re: Instant Search on N900
 

Probably not. The reason full text search is not enabled and why copying and pasting the index won't work may be that N900 is using version 0.6 of Tracker where a lot of features are missing (probably optimizations too) one of the biggest is SparQL. Desktop Linux has already moved to 0.7 (at least mine).