Vincent Untz schreef:
Le mardi 28 avril 2009, à 08:49 +0200, Stephan Kulow a écrit :
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 01:35:17 Vincent Untz wrote:
Maybe it's not a big deal, but I would think a normal user will just feel the interface is broken if you can search and it doesn't work by default.
Note: I don't use beagle and I personally have no strong opinion on whether it should be enabled or disabled by default, except from a user interface point of view.
It's actually hard to find someone that does - and that's the point behind the default: off. For every user saying he uses beagle you find 8[1] users saying they turn it off as first step.
Missing footnote? :-) As previously said on this thread, we hear people who are unhappy about beagle, but we don't hear people who are happy about it.
Note 2: btw, another solution could be to replace beagle with something else. Did people investigate how the other players in this field compare to beagle? Are people opposed to beagle specifically or to the fact that an indexer has an impact on performances?
The problem is: if only a minority is using desktop search, why would we enable it by default?
Define minority? 5%? Or 40%? If it's 40%, then it's worth it (assuming it has no bad effect for the other 60% -- which is what I asked about other indexers). If it's 5%, then sure, we should go ahead and disable it by default.
Vincent
Personaly i never saw the advantage of beagle, but a real option is to only let it index when nobody uses the pc/laptop, and certainly not at startup, because that is realy stupid as it imediately kills all freedom to use the box. First thing i do on a new install (with new home) is uninstall all beagle/kerry instances. On older installs, where i left it, it is not disturbing anymore after it did the job. I notice that indexing when idle, is not bad at all. An indexer should aim to help a user, not work against him/her, by making it impossible to use the machine.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org