GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 679316
Local document search doesn't work
Last modified: 2012-12-17 16:03:46 UTC
I have two Fedora 17 installations and in none of them I can search for local documents in the overview mode. No results are displayed. Only folder names and documents from online accounts are displayed, but no local documents. However, tracker seems to work: $ tracker-search --files '*.ods' sitting Files: file:///home/kparal/documents/Sittingorder.ods But when I type "sitting" in the Gnome Overview mode, I get no results. What information I can provide to help you debug the issue? tracker-0.14.1-1.fc17.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.4.1-5.fc17.x86_64 Fedora 17, Gnome 3.4
Document search is provided by gnome-documents, reassigning.
Created attachment 217919 [details] gnome-documents error when opening gnome-documents display some local documents, but I can't open any of them
After I installed unoconv, all the local documents disappeared from gnome-documents.
After a while, the local documents are back. I can now open Sittingorder.ods. But it's still not displayed in gnome-shell search.
I might have found a related problem. When I run $ gnome-documents or $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 gnome-documents I see all documents, online and local. When I run $ LC_ALL=cs_CZ.UTF-8 gnome-documents I see only online documents.
I switched my desktop language to English and logged out and in. Now I see only online documents in gnome-documents in gnome-documents, no matter how I run it. That software is totally broken.
Comment #5 is bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666749
Kamil, a tracker bug which caused locale related problems for me with tracker was recently fixed with commit 48713ba26af38a15a97fc7ebb0828cd287ef2447. Do you have the possibility to check whether tracker from git fixes your issue?
I don't, but I'll wait until a fix is built for Fedora in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770024 and then re-test.
Kamil, I believe this is fixed in F18 with the latest Tracker and Documents builds. Can you please verify?
Hmm, probably. I can't say much about Documents, because I don't seem to be able to comprehend that application, it's completely chaotic. But at least now it seems to display the same content under different locales. It also seems to be able to find _some_ local files. Gnome-shell search seem to be working only in some directories, it's also pretty confusing. My music files or pictures seem to be found, but my videos are not. I think we can close this bug and I'll open a new bug report when I have time and willpower to study how this should really work. It certainly doesn't do what I would expect it to do (without having any knowledge about the internals), but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bug. Currently I have given up on Documents and learned how to live without gnome-shell search.
Documents only provides the files it handles to the shell search (so no music, videos or other file types), that's how the system is supposed to work: results are provided by applications. In any case, thanks for the follow up. Let's close this, which was very likely caused by bug 666749. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 666749 ***