Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (127 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

> Interesting thought... a modern desktop without a search engine.

No. A modern desktop without a resource hog and unreliable search
engine. This is what I said. 

Beagle is powerful and very useful, when it works. But it's indexing
processes are too heavy even for a modern PC, and are not stable enough
because it's still frequent to have 100% of the cpu used by its helpers.

An example is what happens on SLED SP1, where the whole cpu is used for
hours, thanks to the build index inserted in cronjobs.

> My guess is that the many users who don't like beagle and don't want to
> install it are the minority.  

For what I hear, a lot of users just install it because they have it
there by default, and then disable it.

> Windows, OS X, and Linux all have indexing
> solutions turned on and people not only have come to accept the
> performance issues that come with indexing everything, they embrace it
> so they don't have to track and file their data.

Sorry but you probably never compared MacOS X search features
performance and beagle, for example on a notebook, because there's
really no comparison. Performance issues are not acceptable if they make
your system useless for a lot of time, and this is what beagle does,
even on the enterprise version of SUSE.

Regards,
Alberto


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