Comment 9 for bug 1666676

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Carlos (csoriano) wrote : Re: Enable tracker by default for Unity too

Just adding few more comments I missed:
"sorry, we don't show the file you just downloaded as we didn't get to indexing it yet".
True. We do a regular search in parallel for this case, which unfortunately involves lot of I/O. The point is this to be the less common case, we are lucky enough that is usually this way with XDG_FOLDERS working pretty well for the regular user use.
In an ideal world we would have better kernel inotify and all indexed, I'm really looking forward to see this happen, but it's not the current reality.

"remote file systems"
In those cases and we show a warning and we only search in the current folder by default. An indexing tool is useless here and will always be (maybe we could take a look at this somehow? Not sure how invalidation would work).

"even though most people don't do full-hard disk searches all the time"
I have the complete opposite experience/opinion. Maybe they don't because they don't use tracker + Nautilus and therefore full hard disk searches are kinda useless?
I found out most of people using Nautilus + Tracker use the full hard disk search, rather than setting the option to only do in the current folder, as it's usually more convenient to just search rather than navigate.

Hope is clearer now.