[Bug 1666676] Re: Install tracker by default

[Mathew Hodson]

This is fixed with nautilus 1:3.30.4-1ubuntu1 and later in Disco
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nautilus (1:3.30.4-1ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

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  * Depend on tracker instead of Suggests. It is no longer optional.
    (Closes: #908800)

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** No longer affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #908800
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908800

** Also affects: nautilus (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908800
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Install tracker by default

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nautilus package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Benefits
  ========

  1. It speeds up searching for files in the Files app.

  2. It enables full-text search in the Files app. In other words, you
  can look for files that contain specific words, instead of searching
  just by filename.

  3. It allows the Batch Rename feature in the Files app able to rename
  based on file metadata. For instance, you can use the Artist name for
  properly tagged music files as part of the new file name.

  4. It enables file and folder search in the Activities Overview on
  GNOME. Without tracker, this is a functional regression from Unity and
  is noticed by a lot of people.

  Other Info
  ----------
  You can customize the folders it indexes from Settings > Search > gear button. (LP: #1702878)

  How to Install
  ==============
  Until this is installed by default, you can install it yourself. Run this command in a terminal then log out and log back in (LP: #1697769):

  sudo apt install tracker

  Original Bug Report
  ===================
  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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