Meta Tracker

Meta Tracker ( tracker short ) is a free software system for so-called desktop search for unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It is distinguished by the efficient use of system resources and relatively high operating speed and has few dependencies.

It consists of ( SQL ) database, indexer ( the daemon trackerd ) and search application ( command line program tracker -search and GTK -based graphical user interface called tracker - search-tool ). Applications can access via a programming interface to the services of trackers. It is written in the C programming language and adheres to the freedesktop.org standards.

It is integrated as a standard system with the GNOME desktop, but no specific GNOME software (apart from the GLib dependency). GNOME's default file manager Nautilus integrated tracker functionality since version 2.13.4, support sideline, alternatively Beagle.

One of the developers of GNOME software Conduit struck in early 2007 before the integration of tracker in GNOME. It has already been proposed for GNOME 2.18 but managed only in a later version.