On Sat, 3 May 2014 17:42:48 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> wrote:
Why can not we have a global and unique search engine, accessible from all desktops "brands"? Not one per desktop, increasing used resources tremendously. One that we can enabled or disabled easily (opt-in, not opt-out), tunable, with permission access, etc.
And that it works.
htdig seems to be general enough for local global indexing, although it tends to return everything and then some for a search query. It is rather flexible and can, given appropriate permissions, index entire disks. One of the problems with it is that there are no privacy or privilege controls. For example. anyone with access can search your mail and private files if htdig has indexed them. I stopped using it only because the query method is too dumb and simple, returning far too many results to be useful. If there were a better query engine for it, I'd use it again. [peeve] Tracker, etc., are reinventing the wheel while ignoring and not improving what wheels already exist. There's far too much of that going on and the wheels produced are no better than the ones before. And this is not just in search/indexing utils. So many utils already exist that could be reused, improved or have a graphical front end made for them without going to all the trouble of doing them over. When I needed a date function that the ANSI & K&R C date libraries did not have, I did not go about creating a completely new function from scratch. I modified the standard library. Turned out that was a whole lot easier than making a new one, just a few lines more, building on already existing functions, rather than 50+ for a more complicated one from scratch. And apparently it was useful enough that it is still in the standard library. Without crediting me, of course, but who cares about that. [/peeve] jd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org