On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 07:55 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: 
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 12:57 +0100, Michael Below wrote: 
> > Am Do 24 Feb 2011 06:28:39 CET
> > schrieb Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org>:
> > > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 11:09 +0100, Michael Below wrote: 
> > > > Am Do 24 Feb 2011 09:31:58 CET
> > > > schrieb Pete Biggs <p...@biggs.org.uk>:
> > > > > > Any suggestions? I want a fully indexed search and would like
> > > > > > to be able to specify all the "common" attributes.
> > > > ...
> > > > > The other alternative is to use something like Beagle - that will
> > > > > index Evo messages (and just about everything else on your
> > > > > computer)
> > > > > - and in the process suck all your CPU time and memory :-)
> > > > > Beagle isn't the only search tool/indexer, and it's use seems to
> > > > > be declining in recent years, but I *know* it will index Evo
> > > > > messages.
> > > > I tried beagle, tracker & co for desktop searc with little success:
> > > Agree.  
> > > Beagle is broken for some recent document formats and Evolution mail.
> > > Tracker, at least the version on openSUSE 11.3, seems broken for
> > > everything but plain text and markup.   It doesn't even work for PDF
> > > files, which really hurts. It does *index* e-mail, at least it appears
> > > to, but there is no way to *search* e-mail.
> A bit of testing shows that currently my version [of Tracker] does not
> index PDF or OpenOffice documents.  But it does index Microsoft Office
> documents. 

I figured this issue was worth 15 minutes of poking around... so I
bumped by tracker to 0.9.14 from obs://build.opensuse.org/GNOME and...
it now indexes PDFs [again].  Excellent.


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