On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Doug
I've been following this thread for a while. I never had beagle, and never heard of tracker until the thread started, but I have Recoll that seems to do the same thing, and it's no hassle at all. (Running kde on pclos.) A month or so ago I installed a version on a machine that had been in use for 7~ months or so--it didn't take that long to load, altho I didn't time it. (You could always load something like this just before leaving the office, or just before going to bed, if time is a problem.) I've had to reinstall the system for other reasons, and I put in Recoll from the start, and it took only seconds to initialize itself. I really don't know that it's running, now. Either I don't understand the situation, or Recoll is not the same as tracker, or something. It finds things pretty doggone quick--including some things I'd just as soon *not* store, which makes it harder to search--but I guess you can't have everything. Maybe if the drive fills up. . . .
According to Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoll) Recoll was designed not to require a permanent daemon. It updates its index at designed intervals (for example through Cron tasks). Only if desired, the indexing task can run as a file-system monitoring daemon for real-time index updates. So it doesn't work all the time. Since Beagle is no longer maintained maybe the devs need to take a longer look at what they are including in the system before adding it in. Attachmate/Novell recently laid off all the Mono devs in the US (see: http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/05/attachmate-lays-off-mono-emplo.... ), I wonder what the status of all these mono apps will be. Personally, I've never been much on mono, so I won't shed a tear if it goes away. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org