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: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happy New Year from Yo.media! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
