On 1/10/07, Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:48 -0500, Bryan Clark wrote:
> > Personally I think the menu is nice and there are a number of things I'd
> > have done differently but the main reason I see against including it is
> > that without beagle I can't imagine using it. I tried turning off beagle
> > and it's pretty hard to navigate your files without a places menu. Any
> > suggestions?
>
> I think this example you bring up here, is a shining point of why we
> need beagle (or tracker, or anything else) in the desktop. The fact that
> it is hard to navigate your files without bookmarks to the folders that
> contain them, is a pretty big usability problem, especially considering
> that everything we care about, is a file.

Could not agree more regarding the importance of an indexing searcher
to the GNOME desktop.

Because tracker is also being proposed for inclusion could the slab
hackers comment on how pluggable the beagle search features in slab
are and how easily it could be substituted for tracker based ones?
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