kio-find is a KIO slave that allows KDE's file manager Konqueror to access tracker's indexing database. find_applet adds a search box to the kicker bar.

• 20.02.2007: kio-find-0.2.1, find_applet-0.2.1: Fixed a few small yet annoying bugs. Always test before you release...
• 18.02.2007: kio-find-0.2: support for tracker's service types and filename filters. Umlaut problems fixed.
• 18.02.2007: find_applet-0.2: visual selection of tracker service type
• 04.02.2007: Initial release of kio-find-0.1 and find_applet-0.1

Since a screenshot is worth a thousand words, here are a few shots of kio-find (version 0.1) in action. First, we have the find:/ root window displaying the search history. Then, there is the search result of find:/java+xml and finally a shot of the find kicker applet in action.

Please consider this software in alpha status, it is released as a request for comment rather than for productive use. This means that support requests along the lines of "compilation fails with XYZ, what shall I do?" will be ignored until the software reaches a more mature state.

Future plans

• Move to SourceForge or similar
• Ditch autotools in favour of cmake

Installation

Usage

kio-find implements the find:/ URL (or rather URI) scheme. A find:/ URI consists of a SEARCHPHRASE, a FILTER and a FRAGMENT:

• SEARCHPHRASE: consists of several search keywords separated by '+'. Spaces are converted to '+'. Example: java+xml
• FILTER: matches filenames, case insensitive and with wildcard '*'. Example: *.pdf
• FRAGMENT: defines a subset of the search result to show. At the moment, valid FRAGMENTs are the service types supported by tracker-0.5.4:
  • Documents: doc, document, documents
  • Music: mus, music
  • Images: img, image, images
  • Videos: vid, video, videos
  • Text Files: txt, text, textfiles
  • Development: dev, development

Example for a complete find URL:


looks for documents containing 'java' and 'xml' with a filename ending on '.pdf'. The URL find:/ will display the find history, i. e. a list of all queries that returned at least one result.
The find_applet is a simple kicker applet that calls "konqueror find:/$INPUT" where $INPUT is your text input.

Known bugs