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
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