2010/4/2 Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]>: > Claude Heiland-Allen said : >> >Question 1: how does one perform a search on Pure:Dyne/Xfce? I haven't >> >discovered a search facility for Xfce so far. SearchMonkey works well but >> >crashes frequently and one can't open a folder within it (it doesn't like >> >spaces in folder names). What's your recommendation for a Search utility >> >anyways? >> >> I'm not sure about Xfce integrated searching, because personally I >> use the command-line 'find' in a terminal, eg to search for Ogg >> Videos something like 'find /media/external-drive -iname "*.ogv"'; >> if you have a permanent install on an always-on machine then >> 'locate' can be much faster (it indexes the drives at about 5am >> every day by default) but it is less flexible ('find' supports many >> ways of filtering the results, for example files larger than a >> certain size created before a certain date, 'locate' is based on >> file/path names only). >> >> Check their manual pages for full gory details: 'man find', 'man locate' >> >> They both handle spaces in names, but you have to be careful if you >> pipe the output into other programs like 'xargs' for example: the >> '-print0' flag to 'find' and the '-0' flag to 'xargs' will prevent >> strange issues. > > I think we should provide either beagle or tracker in the DVD ISO, I > know quite a few people that are using those new mega searching tools. > I'm still happy with using only find, but I can see a point in having a > good search engine for desktop users. > > Is anyone familiar with any of these projects, which one would you > recommend?
I don't use them but linux format did a roundup recently. their "winner" was recoll, though it has a lot of dependencies; beagle was also 9/10; tracker was highly-rated but penalised for slow launch time and broken tagging feature. make of that what you will. Dan --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
