On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 23:06 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
That's why when I work on a windows machine I have to disable/remove Windows Search, Google Desktop, Roxio's search, Nero's search, etc, before the machine is usable. My customers are like, WOW! It's fast now...... When I tell them I removed it, they are like, "yeah, I never used it." Comparing above with single desktop search, that doesn't have other home
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:39:40 -0400 then your computer and no other purpose then to help you find information, is mixing apples and oranges.
+1 That is conflating implementations with concepts.
We had this issue with that useless "beagle" years ago & it hasn't had a stable release in over 3 years. Beagle's developers were C# skilled, which means not many and not with deep knowledge of Linux, which was demonstrated in few bugs. In attempt to create universal desktop search they did not take care to integrate Beagle in any particular desktop. It was strange application to any of them.
As someone who used Beagle extensively and dealt with Beagle developers.... the above is incorrect. Early version of Beagle had bugs - IT WAS THE FIRST TOOL OF IT'S KIND. There were also a few bugs in the early versions of the Mono runtime. The Beagle developer's were LINUX and GNOME guys through-and-through; I'd put just about anyone's knowledge of LINUX up against theirs any day of the week. And Beagle integrated deeply with numerous GNOME applications including Evolution. Sadly this it was the unfounded [verging on silly] anti-Mono bigotry plus "bad-taste-memory" that killed Beagle (and caused all the re-implementation effort that now gives us Tracker). It is silly how users have a bad experience with an application and then continue to cite and quote that experience for *years* [decades?] afterward, long after the bugs have been solved. It makes a very solid argument *against* release-early-release-often.
I can't imagine that more than 5% of users every even use a desktop search tool much less find it useful on a regular basis. But heaven forbid it not be included. Desktop search this days, unlike Beagle times, is used without explicitly calling some search application. It is embedded in Main Menu Search, application starter (Alt+F2),
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