On 05/05/2014 08:24 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
KDE now has baloo. Gnome has tracker. There were previous attempts, all failed. I have little faith in the current attempts. 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.
I think that was the point of all the different engines?
I don't any of them started off thinking they'd only be usable-by-desktop, but were hoping to be good enough to be adopted by all.
We obviously need more desktop search engines, as you are satisfied with any of the current ones -- or is there one you'd want to replace the others?
+1 The whole point of the UNIX/Linux/FOSS movement is abut alternatives. We have alternative editors, alternative browsers, alternative MUA and MTA, alternative file systems, alternative kernel schedulers, can use alternative CPUS and graphics cards. SO having an alternative - plugin - search engine makes sense to me. Some people tell me its not a good idea but I'm glad somoene else things we need alternatives :-) -- We must believe in free will. We have no choice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org