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diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index cd5276013..000000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,231 +0,0 @@ -1 Introduction - - Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their - data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and - search for content in their files too. - - Tracker is a semantic data storage for desktop and mobile devices. - Tracker uses W3C standards for RDF ontologies using Nepomuk with - SPARQL to query and update the data. - - Tracker is a central repository of user information, that provides - two big benefits for the desktop; shared data between applications - and information which is relational to other information (for - example: mixing contacts with files, locations, activities and - etc.). - - This central repository works with a well defined data model that - applications can rely on to store and recover their information. - That data model is defined using a semantic web artifact called - ontology. An ontology defines the relationships between the - information stored in the repository. - - An EU-funded project called Nepomuk was started to define some of - the core ontologies to be modeled on the Desktop. Tracker uses this - to define the data's relationships in a database. - - All discussion related to tracker happens on the Tracker - mailing list - - http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list - - IRC channel #tracker on: - - irc.gimp.net - - Bugs and feature requests should be filed at: - - http://bugzilla.gnome.org - - More infomation on Tracker can be found at: - - http://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker - - Repository (first is read-only, second is write access): - - git://git.gnome.org/tracker - ssh://<user>@git.gnome.org/git/tracker - - The official RoadMap (aka TODO) can be found at: - - http://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker/Roadmap - - -2 Use Cases - - Tracker is the most powerful open source metadata database and - indexer framework currently available and because it is built - around a combination indexer and SQL database and not a - dedicated indexer, it has much more powerful use cases: - - * Provide search and indexing facilities similar to those on - other systems (Windows Vista and Mac OS X). - - * Common database storage for all first class objects (e.g. a - common music/photo/contacts/email/bookmarks/history database) - complete with additional metadata and tags/keywords. - - * Comprehensive one stop solution for all applications needing - an object database, powerful search (via RDF Query), first class - methods, related metadata and user-definable metadata/tags. - - * Can provide a full semantic desktop with metadata everywhere. - - * Can provide powerful criteria-based searching suitable for - creating smart file dialogs and vfolder systems. - - * Can provide a more intelligent desktop using statistical - metadata. - -3 Features - - * Desktop-neutral design (it's a freedesktop product built - around other freedesktop technologies like D-Bus and XDGMime - but contains no GNOME-specific dependencies besides GLib). - - * Very memory efficient. Unlike some other indexers, Tracker is - designed and built to run well on mobile and desktop systems with - lower memory (256MB or less). - - * Non-bloated and written in C for maximum efficiency. - - * Small size and minimal dependencies makes it easy to bundle - into various distros, including live CDs. - - * Provides option to disable indexing when running on battery. - - * Provides option to index removable devices. - - * Implements the freedesktop specification for metadata - (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec). - - * Extracts embedded File, Image, Document and Audio type - metadata from files. - - * Supports the WC3's RDF Query syntax for querying metadata. - - * Provides support for both free text search (like Beagle/Google) - as well as structured searches using RDF Query. - - * Responds in real time to file system changes to keep its - metadata database up to date and in sync. - - * Fully extensible with custom metadata - you can store, - retrieve, register and search via RDF Query all your own custom - metadata. - - * Can extract a file's contents as plain text and index them. - - * Can provide thumbnailing on the fly. - - * It auto-pauses indexing when running low on diskspace. - -4 Compilation - - The git repository contains input to the GNU Autotools however a - number of commands need to be run to initialize GNU Autotools in the - project directory. To setup the project for compilation after - checking it out from the git repository, use: - - ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var - - Or if you don't have autogen.sh (i.e. you are using the released - tarball), you can use: - - ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var - - To start compiling the project use: - - make - sudo make install - - If you install using any other prefix, you might have problems - with files not being installed correctly. (You may need to copy - and amend the dbus service file to the correct directory and/or - might need to update ld_conf if you install into non-standard - directories.) - -4.1 Notes on Solaris - - To compile Tracker with GCC on Solaris uses the following - commands : - - CFLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS" ./configure \ - --prefix=/usr \ - --sysconfdir=/etc \ - --localstatedir=/var \ - --with-pic - - make - sudo make install - - To compile Tracker with SUN Studio on Solaris uses the - following commands, because there are some problems to compile - exiv2 using SUN C++ compiler : - - CFLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS" ./configure \ - --prefix=/usr \ - --sysconfdir=/etc \ - --localstatedir=/var \ - --with-pic \ - --disable-exiv2 - - make - sudo make install - -4.2 Compile Options - - Tracker has several compiler options to enable/disable certain - features. You can get a full listing by running - - ./configure --help - -5 Running Tracker - -5.1 Usage - - Tracker normally starts itself when users log in. You can indexing by running: - - $prefix/libexec/tracker-miner-fs - - You can configure how this works using: - - $prefix/bin/tracker-preferences - - You can monitor data miners using: - - $prefix/bin/tracker-status-icon - - You can do simple searching using an applet: - - $prefix/libexec/tracker-search-bar - - You can do more extensive searching using: - - $prefix/bin/tracker-search-tool - -5.2 Setting Inotify Watch Limit - - When watching large numbers of folders, its possible to exceed - the default number of inotify watches. In order to get real time - updates when this value is exceeded it is necessary to increase - the number of allowed watches. This can be done as follows: - - 1. Add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf: - "fs.inotify.max_user_watches = (number of folders to be - watched; default used to be 8192 and now is 524288)" - - 2. Reboot the system OR (on a Debian-like system) run - "sudo /etc/init.d/procps restart" - -6 Further Help - -6.1 Man pages - - Every config file and every binary has a man page. If you start with - tracker-store, you should be able to find out about most other - commands on the SEE ALSO section. - -6.2 Utilities - - There are a range of tracker utilities that help you query for data. |