Linux download of the week: Tracker desktop indexer

Tracker is a desktop indexer, though it might be easier to just think of it as a desktop search tool. It indexes your files–all types–using file contents and metadata. What separates it from the other popular linux desktop search tool, beagle, is that Tracker allows you to tag files. Yup, that’s right, you can tag your files and search by tag now! Tracker includes a command line and gui tool for searching. If that weren’t enough, there are other frontends, such as Affinity-search, Catfish, and even Nautilus.

Screenshot tour

Here’s the basic gui of Tracker built from svn. Note the blue bar with the arrow?

The blue bar opens up, revealing the tagging gui.