Comment 34 for bug 646724

It can add a location for you to index but it gets more and more expensive.
Again I touching mean you do something with the file (open/close/modify). I
am working on a hybrid solution as i said. Sadly if you replace Zeitgeist
you also get drawbacks like sorting, constant directory monitoring (very
expensive over time) ans more, less sorting options, slower searching
(sqlite searches are too slow as compared to xapian powered ones).

So the only solution is either to improve the current of find a hybrid. But
replacing with a new solution will break things more...
:(

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Christoph Buchner <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> So, who's up to writing a script that "touches" each file in a desired
> directory? :-P this, as well as my comment #29, would neatly circumvent this
> problem, no?
> Also, what exactly does "touching" mean? I can neatly touch all files on my
> harddisk if I let baobab (the disk usage analyzer) run over it, but that
> won't work, will it? What would the cheapest (performance-wise) application
> be to do this?
>
> btw, Seif, are you sure about this location limitation for tracker? It's
> been a while since I last used it, but I seem to remember that I could
> add user-chosen locations with one visit to preferences, to be indexed
> by tracker.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724
>
> Title:
> not all files show up in files-place
>
> Status in Unity:
> Triaged
> Status in Unity Files Place:
> Triaged
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
> Fix Released
> Status in Zeitgeist Data-Providers:
> Invalid
> Status in “unity-place-files” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> The Unity interface, with its files-place feature for user access to
> files/documents etc. is really great.
>
> However there is a problem since the search feature relies wholly on
> zeitgeist (AFAIK), in the zeitgeist is not tracking everything.
>
> E.g. in openoffice, I create a new file (or open an existing one) from
> within openoffice itself. This file does not show up, presumably
> because openoffice does not (yet) push its activity to zeitgeist.
>
> I guess any number of other programs could suffer the same problem.
>
> For the average user, this is surely going to be confusing. They will
> create documents via legitimate means ('New ...' buttons in their
> applications), and then expect to be able to search for them in the
> Unity files-place interface.
>
> To avoid this confusion I would guess there really needs to be a
> filesystem watcher on the home dir (or key folders within it) so that
> zeitgeist is aware of activity caused by non-zeitgeist-aware
> applications.
>