Gnome-shell extension: displays tracker search results in the shell overview
When in overview mode of gnome-shell, every time you enter a string, the shell displays found results for you. This can be programs, contacts etc. This extension displays the results, which the tracker framework delivers - obviously, you need a working tracker framework (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker).
It is only invoked, for searches (=string length) above 2 characters.
This extension is derived from https://github.com/cewee/tracker-search. Since it looks like it was abandoned, I completely refactored it to work again in gnome-shell 3.10 onward.
Just open the gnome-shell overview and start typing. When your typed word is longer than 2 chars, the tracker database is searched and the results displayed.
You can also only search specific file types: You use this by typing
- 'v myvideoname...' -> v means to display only videos
- 'i mystrangeimagename....' -> i means to display only images
- 'm somemusicfile..' -> m means to display only audio files
To install, simply copy the 3 files into a directory '~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/tracker-search-provider@sinnix.de' (the directory 'tracker-search-provider@sinnix.de' has to be created first). Then reload your shell (you can also logout/login) and activate it with gnome-tweak-tool or the extensions website. Be sure you have the tracker framework installed and running and you have installed the GObject introspection (gir1.2-tracker package). You also need tracker-needle.
Please feel free to contribute (especially for displaying the results itself)