On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Adam Tauno Williams<awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
No, because you choose to not use a new tool has no bearing on the merit of the new tool. I simply don't see how Meta-Space, enter a few characters, down-arrow, enter to get to exactly the document/contact/e-mail/etc... that I want is a "useless" feature. It is just different and requires adapting one's workflow to the newly available tools.
A lot of it also depends on the users hardware. If they don't use it and don't need it, WHY make their system waste resources indexing? If the indexing program isn't smart enough to stop running IMMEDIATELY as soon a the user starts doing something, then it's a problem.
Say you don't like it and/or won't use it - fine. But don't claim it is useless, broken, or a resource hog [which it isn't].
No, I claim that it is generally installed without the person's knowledge(like the default in openSUSE 11.0 & 11.1), they don't know it's there or how to use it, and they don't like the fact that their system is/can be slower because of it. That's the problem.
Quite some time ago Beagle would run hog wild on the system occasionally - that doesn't happen anymore. Obviously it does appear to create extra load AT FIRST while it does the initial index, but once done it only re-indexes things as they change and presents very minimal load. I suspect most people dramatically overreact to Beagle's initial indexing. There is, I believe, a huge lag in many people's perception as what Beagle was in its first versions to what it is now; they are no more valid than comparing Open Office 1.x to Open Office 3.x. If someone doesn't use something then clearly they aren't qualified to speak to its *current* condition. I don't do 3D graphics - so I don't comment on the state of Blender, OpenGL, etc...
Some people have even recently reported problems with Beagle. Since I don't use it, I don't have any idea whether it's still as bad as it was(though I hear that USUALLY it isn't). Perception IS part of the problem. If someone notices that their system is slow, and they find out that something like Beagle is the culprit, they are more than likely to kill it than to worry with it. As I don't use 3D either, I don't like Compiz or any of that other stuff being installed and running. My computer is a tool, not something to go "Gee Whiz" about. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org