Tracker is a Desktop search, file indexing and search framework for Linux and other Unix-like systems. It is written in the C (programming language), C programming language.
Tracker has been adopted by the GNOME desktop environment and is heavily integrated into GNOME Shell and GNOME Files.
One of the developers of the Conduit (software), Conduit application has suggested using Tracker to create "a metadata-enabled GNOME",
similar to using Strigi as an indexer for a metadata framework in KDE Software Compilation 4.
See also
* Strigi
* NEPOMUK (software), NEPOMUK
* Baloo (software)
* WinFS
* Desktop search
* List of search engines#Desktop search engines, List of desktop search engines
References
External links
Tracker wikipageon GNOME Wiki
Tracker repositoryon GNOME GitLab
A first look at Tracker 0.6.0
Applications using D-Bus
Beta software
Desktop search engines
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