[hardy] tracker-search-tool unable to open files with space in path

[Mateusz]

Binary package hint: tracker-search-tool

If there are files or directories with space in names, tracker-search-tool is unable to open those files or files in such directories. Tracker-search-tool reports in ~./xsession-errors while opening file "The role.pdf":
local: 438: self-assembly:: bad variable name
Warning: unknown mime-type for "/home/username/The" -- using "application/*"
Error: no such file "/home/username/The"

[Niclas Lockner (niclasl)]

I can confirm this. Using Ubuntu 8.04 and the bug still exist in tracker-search-tool 0.6.6-0ubuntu2.

[tonderai (david-tonderai)]

This bug is still there in 0.6.6-0ubuntu3 on 8.04 - affects files with a space anywhere in the path.

Is this posted in the right place, as it doesn't seem to be getting much attention :(

[ben (bhaubeck-gmail)]

hello,

thanks for your great work.

my ubuntu 8.04.1 is up to date with the already mentioned package versions:

tracker-search-tool 0.6.6-0ubuntu3.8.04.1

but this bug still exists (for nearly a year now).
is there noone who is willing and able to fix it?

tonight i will test the tracker-search-tool in the beta of 8.10 and will report again.

[ben (bhaubeck-gmail)]

hello again,

okay one thing is fixed in 8.10 beta with this version:

tracker-search-tool 0.6.6-1ubuntu5

you can open documents with spaces in their names by double clicking on them.
but that brings us to the next part: the content of files with spaces in their name in seems no to be indexed...

it would be very great if this can be fixed before the release of 8.10...

[tonderai (david-tonderai)]

hi ben,

that's great news the one bug has been fixed, but not so good about the other.

i don't think anyone's following this bug report. i posted the previous one to the tracker mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list and it got a response within seconds. i suspect that's the only reason the one bug has been fixed.

i've unsubscribed from the list now (high traffic!), but i recommend you do the same for this one - or i can at some point.