Tracker notification or lens for Unity?

[sambhogi]

I am setting up a system for a friend, and I want to make it as easy to use as possible. With the advent of Unity there is no longer a default indexing search feature to search all files, which to me is a big step back for a modern OS, and so I am installing Tracker manually. However, there appears to be no replacement for the Tracker search bar which exists for the Gnome panel. Has anyone developed an indicator or lens for Unity?

While I like Unity overall, there are 2 things that I find real drawbacks: the lack of a convenient and obvious way to organize files/apps (for example, by tagging) that replaces the menu system, and the lack of an easily customizable panel - this must be one of the biggest annoyances across the board, because it makes it a pain to access some applications, of which the most important for me are CryptKeeper (which I have since figured out) and the Tracker search bar.

[pt123]

I have found Tracker to be poorly maintained on Ubuntu, and the application is all over the place. It has numerous "applications" for different aspects, but none of them are referred or linked to each other.

[sambhogi]

Is there an alternative indexing search tool that you think is better? If not, my original question still stands.

[kiirokurisu]

Ubuntu/Unity uses Zeitgeist by default to index files and folders as well as recently used items. You can also install the zeitgeist-fts package to get full-text search features (searching file contents). This seems to cover most of the features of Tracker, at least the ones I used.

[pt123]

Is there an alternative indexing search tool that you think is better? If not, my original question still stands.

I created a similar thread before
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1701012

This page was suggested

http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Com...earch_software

Pinot looked promising but I couldn't install it because of a package conflict with LibreOffice ( this might have been fixed). Also Pinot's homepage is hosted on poor web server and there are security certificate exceptions. The have moved it to google but there are no screenshots on that page
http://code.google.com/p/pinot-search/

[sambhogi]

Thanks for the tips. It appears zeitgeist-extension-fts is installed by default, but I cannot find where to configure it. It does not seem to index .doc, .odt, or .pdf files. Nor can I see how to set Zeitgeist to index the entire home directory.

[pt123]

there is a privacy tool in 12.04 which lets you configure zeitgeist but it's bloody hard to find

[gts]

Here you can find something:
http://hoheinzollern.wordpress.com/2...-tracker-lens/

[sambhogi]

Thanks!

That link also led me to this one:

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/recol...nity-lens.html

Hopefully one of these will be included in Ubuntu by default in the future, or at least as an option during install.