gtk+ filechooser should use meta-tracker for searching

Thank you for your bug. It does use it if it's available at runtime

Nah, it doesn't work, there is something wrong. I use only the packages coming from gutsy's official repositories (well, main and universe), so no hacks on my side.

However, when I search for "pingouin" in t-s-t or tracker-enabled nautilus, I get two files returned instantly (one .pdf and one .odt).

Trying to search "pingouin" in the gtk file chooser scratches the hard drive like mad for a few seconds and returns nothing. Does not sound like it actually uses tracker in that case.

I don't really know if it works or not. I can't hear the HDD scratching, it's very fast (<1s), but results are only from Home, and not from all the tracker's "Watch directories". And it doesn't show the text files containing the word you're searching, like tracker indexed them. So if it's associated, it's a different behavior...

I tested this on my laptop, and it actually works. But the bug is still present on my desktop. Both computers are of similar use (the desktop only has more files overall), and tracker was installed the same way on both.

Is there ways I can provide you with more information to fix this please?

This is probably due to a bug in GTK's Tracker search engine that is now fixed in the development version.
It would be nice if the following patch could be applied to the Ubuntu package of GTK until a new version is released.

Bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478173
Patch: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/trunk/gtk/gtksearchenginetracker.c?r1=18219&r2=18846&view=patch

gtk+2.0 (2.12.0-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Sync with Debian
  * debian/libgtk2.0-0.postinst.in:
    - updated transition version
  * debian/patches/090_from_svn_fix_tracker_use.patch:
    - patch from SVN, dlopen the correctly library name (LP: #132013)
  * debian/patches/series:
    - use 091_workaround_no_gtk_init_incorrect_display.patch change

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:39:30 +0200

When https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/150379 was resolved as "Fix Released", that made the "Fix Released" status of this bug incorrect.

It appears that Tracker integration now works again, so please ignore the previous comment.