Feature changed by: Mingxi Wu (Mingxi_Wu) Feature #303367, revision 17 Title: Better Beagle Acceptance openSUSE-11.0: Rejected by Gary Ekker (gekker) reject date: 2008-05-27 09:03:27 reject reason: Not done for 11.0. Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.1: Done Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Description: There have been several discussions on the public openSUSE mailing lists, e.g. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-01/msg00157.html where people complain about resource usage or garbage from beagle. I suggest that we analyze the current situation and check where are real problems and consider solutions. One option would be to make it easier for users to not enable beagle on their systems. Note: The feature request is about getting a better acceptance by our users of our indexing technology - and therefore let's figure out what are the problems they are hitting in real life. References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=282678 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450856 Discussion: #1: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2008-01-20 11:12:58) See also bug 282678. #2: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2008-01-23 16:23:51) Note: powertop advises "Suggestion: Disable or remove 'beagle' from your system. Beagle is the program that indexes for easy desktop search, however it's not very efficient and costs a significant amount of battery life.". #3: JP Rosevear (jproseve) (2008-01-23 10:38:58) (reply to #2) Yes, this is well known and was covered extensively last year and caused by polling for battery status in some cases. 0.3.2 uses hal to detect battery status: http://www.mail-archive.com/dashboard-hackers@gnome.org/msg03464.html #4: JP Rosevear (jproseve) (2008-01-23 10:41:35) (reply to #3) Also part of it was a mono issue: http://www.nabble.com/Beagle-indexing-when-running-on-batteries-td13842939.h... #8: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) (2009-05-07 08:09:33) Recently, in the context of SLED 11 (bug 450856) , there was an improvement. I'll try to verify it soon. + #9: Mingxi Wu (mingxi_wu) (2009-09-04 09:39:16) + What about integrating beagle's setting dialog into gnome-control- + center? + It is not very hard to remove beagle from autostart application. Just + add a line into beagled-autostart.desktop. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/303367