On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:58:27 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón wrote:
>> I'm looking of a desktop search utility that can to search mainly >> within (inside) documents, mostly "pdf" and "odt" files, but not >> limited to these ones (if it also could index Icedove e-mails would be >> great). (...) > I've been using recoll for a while and I rather like it. It's not > flashy, but it works quite well. > > Some possibly useful links: > > http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Comparison_of_desktop_search_software > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_search_engines#Desktop_search_engines Johan, Celejar, thank you both for your suggestions. *Really* useful :-) I think, by reviewing the wikipedia links provided (nice link!), I am going to give "Tracker" a chance. - "Tracker" It seems to be quite similar to Beagle (easy of use and very well Gnome integration) but it a has a bit more advantages (C programming -instead Mono-, more stable and less resource consuming). - "Strigi" + deskbar applet search It seems to be very light-weight at indexing and also seems to be a central point of integration between any desktop search (it has support for several systems -linux, unix, solaris, macos, windows...) but I think is still evolving and defining its way, so I'd rather prefer to wait a year or two before start using it O:-) - Recoll, by the way, seems to be more kde-centric (qt gui). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org