[opensuse] Desktop search alternatives
I waited years in anticipation of beagle. Then finally on OpenSuse 10.3 when i tried to use it i found it took a long time to find and list results and i saw no way of having it list results with the search words in the file name listed on top, giving those results more weight or relevance rating. This was especially disappointing when comparing with online search engines searching through billions of documents and often listing highly relevant results within fractions of seconds ... I am a full time researcher so searching files is something i do often, both full text and file names. Beagle is so slow that i disabled it, so i was glad when under the subject of "Why beagle" others expressed the shortcomings. Konqueror Ctrl-f is still buggy in it's handling of what you do with listed files, lacks basic features like "open parent directory", requires users to know grep when searching for partial matches or more then one word, only searches one partition at a time. And i never managed to use properties like file size successfully. Unfortunately this did not change in KDE4's dolphin. Konqueror's "Filter This Folder" does not search in sub-directories. What is your experience with desktop search alternatives ? Can you recommend affinity-search, doodle, strigi (strigiclient), others ? Kind regards Philippe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Jan 19, 2008 5:35 PM, Philippe Landau <lists@user-land.org> wrote:
What is your experience with desktop search alternatives ? Can you recommend affinity-search, doodle, strigi (strigiclient), others ?
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On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:05 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
I waited years in anticipation of beagle. Then finally on OpenSuse 10.3 when i tried to use it i found it took a long time to find and list results and i saw no way of having it list results with the search words in the file name listed on top, giving those results more weight or relevance rating.
This was especially disappointing when comparing with online search engines searching through billions of documents and often listing highly relevant results within fractions of seconds ...
I am a full time researcher so searching files is something i do often, both full text and file names. Beagle is so slow that i disabled it, so i was glad when under the subject of "Why beagle" others expressed the shortcomings.
Konqueror Ctrl-f is still buggy in it's handling of what you do with listed files, lacks basic features like "open parent directory", requires users to know grep when searching for partial matches or more then one word, only searches one partition at a time. And i never managed to use properties like file size successfully. Unfortunately this did not change in KDE4's dolphin. Konqueror's "Filter This Folder" does not search in sub-directories.
What is your experience with desktop search alternatives ? Can you recommend affinity-search, doodle, strigi (strigiclient), others ?
Kind regards Philippe
Without becoming another Why Beagle thread, let me address a couple of things: 1. Online search engines have millions of dollars worth of computer power. We don't ;-) As for alternatives: Ubuntu uses Tracker. I used it for a little, not BAD, but a little limited in functionality. -- Kevin "Yo" Dupuy | Public Email: <kevin@kevinsword.com> Happy New Year from Yo.media! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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