Why won't there ever be a GUI for this? I'm sure it's very confusing for an unexperienced user to see Beagle always indexing and not knowing why. I'm not really unexperienced and I'm still confused. I can never tell what Beagle is doing and why. For instance: **************** $ beagle-shutdown $ ps -A |grep beagle 6645 ? 00:00:23 beagled 6908 ? 00:00:37 beagled-helper 7214 ? 00:00:00 beagled-helper 13455 ? 00:00:02 beagle-search 22083 ? 00:00:01 beagled-helper $ beagle-shutdown ERROR: The Beagle daemon does not appear to be running $ sudo beagle-shutdown Password: **** ERROR: The Beagle daemon does not appear to be running $ ps -A |grep beagle 6645 ? 00:00:23 beagled 6908 ? 00:00:37 beagled-helper 7214 ? 00:00:00 beagled-helper 13455 ? 00:00:02 beagle-search 22083 ? 00:00:01 beagled-helper $ date Wed Feb 7 11:34:12 CET 2007 $ date Wed Feb 7 11:35:22 CET 2007 $ ps -A |grep beagle 6645 ? 00:00:23 beagled 6908 ? 00:00:37 beagled-helper 7214 ? 00:00:00 beagled-helper 13455 ? 00:00:02 beagle-search 22083 ? 00:00:01 beagled-helper $ beagle-index-info --help Could not connect to the daemon. $ beagle-index-info Could not connect to the daemon. $ beagle-info --status Could not connect to the daemon. $ ps -A |grep beagle 6645 ? 00:00:23 beagled 6908 ? 00:00:37 beagled-helper 7214 ? 00:00:00 beagled-helper 13455 ? 00:00:02 beagle-search 22083 ? 00:00:01 beagled-helper **************** I have no idea what's going on. The processes seem stuck, but they don't seem do be dead.
And what you propose is not a good answer to my questions. For example (I may have expressed myself unclearly) I'd like to know what things it can/tries to index (e.g. is it indexing chat logs?), not what is it indexing right now. Sort of a list of active indexing plugins and what they can do. I can't really tell how much it has indexed either. I see it now -- two weeks later after I installed it -- that it's still indexing files from one of the partitions (a big one). But I have no idea if it indexed 95% or 5%. And for the third problem, that's not solved either by current tools. I can see that some INotify messages when started in debug mode, so I assume it tries to use it and it probably works. I also see some "file attributes" warnings, so I assume that works too for files that didn't throw a warning. And then I see a flood of "Lock obtain timed out", which I assume is from the program instances that won't quit. (See above.) I don't mean you should add a complete GUI for debugging Beagle, but something of the kind Google Desktop provides shouldn't be out of the question. -- beagle's workings are not transparent enough https://launchpad.net/bugs/80854 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
