On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:21 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote: > Another example would be desktop-wide searching. A front-end search tool > would be able to scan the session bus for objects supporting this > interface and query each in turn for applicable results, presenting them > as such - "10 matching emails in Evolution, 20 matching notes in Tomboy" > etc. This would mean that the existing engines (Tracker, Beagle) > wouldn't need to write duplicate indexers for every application like > Evolution, they can concentrate on the file system and full-text > indexing. It also cuts down on data duplication - there isn't a copy of > my email metadata in both Evo and Tracker and so it never needs to get > crawled and cannot get out of sync. > this sounds quite good to deal with the 'too much disk space taken by search engines', which indeed is too much (over 3GB here) if your home is big -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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