On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 21:24 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
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.
I have and do compare it to the OS X search features, my experience on SLED SP1 has just been different from what you have described. -Calvin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org