Carlos [2017-02-28 12:08 -0000]: > "Tracker imposes a huge cost due to always indexing everything" > As long as is low priority and the kernel scheduler works fine it shouldn't > be an issue.
This isn't true. This will use a lot more CPU and disk cycles, thus decreasing battery life. Or, if you don't index while on battery, it's going to be even less reliable. > "So I don't see how "enable tracker" can ever be a replacement for typeahead > search" Maybe I was not clear enough in my first post. (don't mean to be > rude, just clear) Tracker is needed for search in Nautilus. Period. That's the bit I'm totally not convinced of. Due to it's "background/async" nature, it's not reliable for searching, and it's also way too much overhead to replace a single-directory level search (i. e. what you usually do for typeahead search). Doing a fully recursive search is okay to be slow, as that's only being used seldomly, and if you do it you most probably want the results to be correct, not approximative. So my (very subjective) opinion is that any indexing tool is not an appropriate backend for searching. This isn't particularly tracker's fault, it's just the nature of what an indexer is. Also, note that I'm not speaking authoritatively for the Ubuntu desktop team, this is just my personal opinion. I would just not appreciate it to see getting an indexer imposed onto everyone for rare use cases (like content-based batch renaming) -- optimize for the common case instead. As I said, if you care about content preview etc., it's still fine to give users an opt-in into this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666676 Title: Enable tracker by default for Unity too Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use tracker for search. This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #1666681) To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See this patch: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu- desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1666676/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp