tracker

[norman]

> > Would some kind and knowledgeable person please tell me whether tracker
> > is supposed to be of any use for an ordinary desktop user like me? If it
> > is mainly of use for server users would it cause any problem if I were
> > to remove it?
> > 

> Some wouldn't necessarily call me kind, but in some things I am 
> knowledgeable.  So I'll give this a shot.  Based on the docs tracker is 
> nothing more than a 'semantic desktop'.  It's designed to make normal 
> desktop users more efficient by integrating certain items into others. 
> Typically it's things like searching and document management.

Thank you very much for your response which I find very interesting
which helps with the first part of my question.

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> I would suggest you take it for a spin and see if you like it, or that 
> it's useful to you.  You never know until you try.
> 
Tracker came with Ubuntu 8.04 so it is there on my machine. I think I
might have used it once or twice in 5 months. So this brings me to the
second part of my question, will it cause any problems if I remove it?

Norman