Bug#439863: nautilus: search does not work

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 13:46 +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote:
> thanks for the input! I did have _no_ idea what this error message meant
> but now I have a bit of a glue. Btw. I don't know if this is related but
> I can search files with the tool located under "Places" in the gnome
> menu, no errors there (isn't that all nautilus?).

That's actually a separate tool, but I'm guessing it will start using
Tracker (or something similar) as a backend soon too.

> ii  libtrackerclient0   0.6.1-1    metadata database...
> 
> this is what I have installed, but not the package "tracker" itself.
> Could you elaborate on that a bit more? Should "tracker" itself be
> installed or is the client lib enough? If so, is this a broken
> dependence or a "real" bug in nautilus?

You will need the tracker package installed (and trackerd running) for
this to work. The client lib could have a Recommends on tracker, but I'm
guessing it doesn't by design (not everyone want to have desktop search
and indexing).

I don't know how this will be handled in the future (in Nautilus 2.20)
but I hope it will silently fall back to normal search if tracker isn't
found.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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