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nautilus package

  1. Bug #1666676
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 1666676

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Hi, here's a quick update. Nautilus 3.24 is in Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha now. I dropped ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch because it does not make sense any more (it enabled some features based on whether GNOME was the current desktop).

Nautilus does have several features that will only work if tracker is installed. The biggest 2 features for Ubuntu I see are:
- File search in GNOME Shell's Activities Overview (GNOME's equivalent of Unity's Dash)
- I'm told that search is much, much faster in indexed directories and that people will complain that search is slow after removing type-ahead if tracker is not installed.

My understanding is that every other GNOME distro includes tracker by default (except maybe Gentoo).

Does tracker have bugs? Sure. Do people hate tracker for various reasons? Yes. But I haven't seen anyone in this discussion point to a current, specific, actionable bug reports where tracker is causing significant problems.