Tracker doesn't index Excel (.xls) files by default
Bug #300774 reported by
Dave Vree
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| tracker (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: tracker
I have many excel files on my system and I quickly noticed when tracker had finished it's initial indexing that their content was not indexed. After sifting through various forums and website I discovered that package "gnumeric" needed to be installed before this could happen.
I would suggest that whatever part of gnumeric makes this possible be made a dependent package for tracker. I see that gnumeric is a "suggested" package for tracker. Alternatively, perhaps gnumeric should be a "recommended" package.
If it need to be an optional package, then it would be nice to be able to enable it from the indexer preferences GUI.
