[Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

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.

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to
  use tracker for search.

  This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for
  Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted
  the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #1666681)

  To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus
  build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See
  this patch:

  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

  This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker
  components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity.

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