Kevin Dupuy wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:10 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Stevens wrote:
Today Kevin Dupuy <kevindupuy@bellsouth.net> wrote:
From what I'm reading right now, I'm presuming either you have no documents, or they are all on your desktop. If you actually did work, you would love Beagle. I do.
I've been using Beagle since it's SUSE introduction in 2005 (9.3), and it is a really nice way to find any documents, emails, chats, web history, music, podcasts, videos, etc. that is really easy to find things.
Furthermore, as I mentioned on the "other" thread, I'm trying to figure out why Beagle takes up so much CPU and memory in some people's computers ALSO:
Today "Peter Van Lone" <petervl@gmail.com> wrote:
it's desktop search ... what's the big mystery? Have you been living under a rock for the last 2 or 3 years?
If you don't want/need desktop search, then fine. Many do. Beagle seems to be a quite useful example of a category of service that many many millions of people use. OK, a little clarification is needed. I neither live under a rock nor do I idle away my time. Nor can I fathom a need for Beagle when it is such a resource hog.
I am reminded of a friend who has been buying and using personal computers since the old twin 5 1/4" drive TRS-80 just so he could keep track of his crap. Nowdays he is no better and he uses some kind of file indexing scheme on his Windows box. I used to spend time there helping him with projects; after a day or two, I had all his stuff catalogued in my head and could find it for him faster than he could look it up. Ditto with my files that are strung out over 3 disk drives and in tons of email. For me, Beagle is a terrible waste; for him and others like him, it is probably a Godsend. YMMV.
I similarly have no problem finding any file I create which may be years since I last touched it.
The key is ORDERLY, LOGICAL creation and naming of both files and directory the trees in both my home directory and other "storage areas" (such as /local for stuff I download and want to keep from version to version but doesn't really belong in $HOME).
Fred
By the way, FYI Kevin: my system is: * Intel 2.4GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, Intel chipset * Suse 10.2, kernel 2.6.18, KDE 3.5.5 * kmail, 4800 files, 730MB * no Beagle
OK, here's the issue: you're not "most people". I'm not most people. All of us subscribed to this mailing list are probably not most people. And most people don't name their files orderly, and put them in logical places. I've seen people who write something about a project about the Civil War and name it "project.doc". I would name it "Civil War Project.odt", and that person put the file in their My Pictures folder because that's where the Save dialog box is open to. They are the people who would benefit most from Beagle, and that's also about 90% of the computing population, so if openSUSE wants to reach that 90%, it a good idea to have Beagle installed by default and turned on.
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