Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And this is part of  the problem.  Since it works and doesn't cause
> you problems, then people complaining about them must be wrong.

No, but it means people claiming it is "useless" and "never" works *are*
simply wrong (since it, in fact, does work for some people).  The
problem here is hyperbole; it makes real discussion essentially
impossible.

> Beagle's been a useless PITA for many since it was introduced.  I
> don't even install it anymore, mainly because I have NEVER found ANY
> use for a Desktop Search tool.  As I have stated repeatedly, when I
> work on a customer's system(generally Windows, but the same applies),
> they don't know they have it or why it's there, and when I tell them
> their system will run faster without it, they all say chuck it.
> Desktop Search is an answer looking for a problem.

No, because you choose to not use a new tool has no bearing on the merit
of the new tool.  I simply don't see how Meta-Space, enter a few
characters, down-arrow, enter to get to exactly the
document/contact/e-mail/etc... that I want is a "useless" feature.   It
is just different and requires adapting one's workflow to the newly
available tools.

Say you don't like it and/or won't use it - fine.  But don't claim it is
useless, broken, or a resource hog [which it isn't].

Quite some time ago Beagle would run hog wild on the system occasionally
- that doesn't happen anymore.  Obviously it does appear to create extra
load AT FIRST while it does the initial index, but once done it only
re-indexes things as they change and presents very minimal load.  I
suspect most people dramatically overreact to Beagle's initial indexing.
There is, I believe, a huge lag in many people's perception as what
Beagle was in its first versions to what it is now;  they are no more
valid than comparing Open Office 1.x to Open Office 3.x.  If someone
doesn't use something then clearly they aren't qualified to speak to its
*current* condition.  I don't do 3D graphics - so I don't comment on the
state of Blender, OpenGL, etc...

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