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| Carlos Garnacho (carlosg) wrote Re: Enable tracker by default for Unity too | #7 |
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Hi Martin,
You're right. Tracker is not a replacement for type-ahead search, reducing tracker to this would be far too simplistic.
Using Tracker is however a technical decision adopted by the nautilus team, they use it in a way that doesn't even attempt to be functionally equivalent to type-ahead search. As I see it, Ubuntu has two choices:
1) Investing time/resources in updating a patch that will get bigger and trickier to rebase over time, with the downside of possible stability issues ending up in the wrong bug reporting system, being ignored or not addressed properly, and generally frustrating users.
2) Getting closer to upstream, which means accepting additional processes to get your files indexed in the background and best-effort latency upon filesystem changes, and getting a more versatile search in return.
Whatever the decision is, and as far as I'm personally concerned, by all means be my guest :)