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. 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org