tagging_for_nautilus

Nautilus scripts for tagging support using Tracker Version 1.3

Jesse Hallett hallettj@gmail.com August 14, 2007

Tracker must be installed and running. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ for information about what Tracker is and how to get it.

These scripts allow you to add tags to files, remove tags from files, and to display tags associated with files from within Nautilus.

To install, copy add-tags, show-tags, and remove-tags to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/

To add tags:

1. select one or more files
2. open a context menu by right clicking on one of the selected files
3. open the "Scripts" sub-menu
4. click on "add-tags"
5. Type some tags separated by commas into the box that appears and press "OK"

To view tags:

1. select one or more files
2. open a context menu by right clicking on one of the selected files
3. open the "Scripts" sub-menu
4. click on "show-tags"

If you have selected more than one file, the dialog box that appears will only show tags that are common to all of the selected files.

There is a known bug that prevents this script from displaying tags with spaces in them correctly. It will incorrectly report a multi-word tag as a collection of separate tags. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464549

To remove tags:

1. select one or more files
2. open a context menu by right clicking on one of the selected files
3. open the "Scripts" sub-menu
4. click on "remove-tags"
5. check the boxes next to the tags that you want to remove and click "OK"

The remove dialog will show all of the tags attached to every file that is selected. The selected tags will be removed from every file that has that tag.

The same bug that prevents multi-word tags from displaying correctly prevents this script from being able to delete those tags. You will have to use tracker-search-tool or tracker-tag from the command line to remove any tags that have spaces in them.