GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 677169
gnome-shell doesn't show recent files when searching in Activity window
Last modified: 2014-04-28 16:21:16 UTC
When you open an Activities window and try search some of your recent opened documents, there is not anyone displayed. Some time ago I've read that the gnome-documents application is responsible for this functionality. But when I open gnome-documents application, there are some documents which I opened long time ago, but not recently. Are there some prerequisites that should be met to have this functionality activated? Operating system: Arch Linux x86_64 Packages versions: gnome-shell 3.4.1-3 gnome-documents 0.4.2-1
The Documents apps is responsible for adding documents search results, so the problem is there. (Other apps are supposed to add other types of content, but they currently don't support this.)
Robert and Milan: Documents is responsible to add search results, but only for the types it supports, i.e. PDF/Office/Google Docs. What kind of results are you expecting to see? For e.g. images/videos, other similar search providers still need to be written.
I've just tried it with clean install of Fedora 17 and it works with PDF and Office files. Problem is on my Arch Linux machine. No document appears in gnome-documents application. Is there any log file where I could track the problem? Also it would be good to have displayed in gnome-documets text files opened in gedit.
This is also reported in launchpad for Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/970686?comments=all I can confirm this for Debian sid.
See bug 670150
I can confirm this for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. Any workaround available?
I am experiencing this bug in Debian testing.
Document search worked for me briefly right after restarting the computer. Stopped working after that.
Same issue in Debian testing amd64, GNOME 3.4.2
You can try [1]. It returns the previously existing functionality to show the items from the recently-used list. [1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/558/search-recently-used-files/
Are you saying that the Documents search provider is not returning any results on Arch ? Can you try a reasonably recent version of GNOME? Say 3.8 or later.
Downgrading from major to normal because I doubt that the search provider is broken in recent versions.
Closing as OBSOLETE. Have not heard back from the reporters in a while and as far as I can make out the bug has been fixed in recent versions. Please feel free to reopen if you have reason to believe otherwise.
I'm running Gnome 3.8.4 on Ubuntu, and this bug is still present. I don't get any documents when I search in the Activities screen.
Given that I can not reproduce this on Fedora 19, which has GNOME 3.8.x, lets try to narrow down the differences in our setups. I have got the following versions: - sqlite-3.8.3-1.fc19.x86_64 - tracker-0.16.2-3.fc19.x86_64 - gnome-documents-3.8.5-1.fc19.x86_64 The tracker package in Fedora 19 has the fix for bug 710413 What do you have?
I have: libsqlite3-0:amd64/saucy 3.7.17-1ubuntu1 tracker:amd64/saucy 0.16.2-1ubuntu1 gnome-documents:amd64/saucy 3.8.3.1-1 Also, I just did some more testing, and it turns out I can get a few file/directory results to come up, but only the ones directly in my home directory -- nothing nested beyond that. I can also get "gnome-documents-gettings-started". Is this a configuration issue?
Does it help if you add the patch for bug 710413 to your tracker package?
No, but setting org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files.index-recursive-directories to ['$HOME'] and then restarting the session did the trick. I didn't know that the default configuration was to not index $HOME recursively. I don't use any of the default directories that are recursively indexed, so I wasn't seeing any results.