Currently, tracker-search does not allow searching for substrings in filenames.

Imagine you have two files: hawaii_sunset1.jpg and hawaii_sunset2.jpg.

Example 1: Issuing the command `tracker-search hawai' should actually list both files, since they contain the string hawai. It doesn't. `tracker-search hawaii' does return both files. This might not look so bad, but it gets worse when you have a file like hawaii1357.jpg. You would have to search for `hawaii1357' because searching for `hawaii' would yield nothing.

Example 2: Similar to the example above, issuing the command `tracker-search sunset' does return 0 results. You would expect tracker to show you both files since they contain the string `sunset' (and that is what a user would remember, not the numbers).

Splitting word for word might work for file contents, but it's not the ideal way for searching by filename. It would be great if tracker-search could deal with filenames in a better way.


Other information:
using tracker-0.5.4-r1