On Friday 13 February 2009 07:57:51 pm Larry Stotler wrote:
Unless you ahve 1000's of emails and documents
For emails KMail has pretty fast search that you can invoke with key "s", or from drop down menu Edit - Find Messages. Documents are small problem. The main problem with Beagle is its index archive. It is huge. I haven't used it recently, but last time in its default configuration it was unable to find things that I know they are there, so I removed it from the system. I can see usage for desktop search programs, but one should have good setup wizard with a lot of potential questions explained, to make such program useful. Just setting default to index all, or nothing, or something else without notifying user, and explanation of reasons why that selection and not some other, is not very helpful to those users that need program. Those that can fiddle with configurations are usually organized and don't need Beagle, or any other desktop search. Another problem is that current implementation of data storage in any desktop is file system based. It is asking user for file name and its location in file system. Currently Beagle is just a patch on retrieval side. Real solution would be to have storage and retrieval hadled by single program, so there would be no need to search for files and index them after they stored. If one solution would be used: - indexing can be done in the time file has to be stored, - program can optimize file storage and retrieval for particular file system, - index can be structured and restructured for optimal speed - users can forget files system Particular problem for automatic indexing are non textual files, like images. Something like this can help: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr#colors=9aba4c; -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org