On 15 Oct 2008, at 17:02, James Cornell wrote: > If users tagged directories and files, with > filters on the type without an indexer arbitrarily doing everything in > a particular area of the filesystem, then the performance would be > much better and the goal of the indexing would be met.
Until somebody comes up with a means of tagging every new file than isn't incredibly tedious for users to do, however (i.e. doing as much of it as possible automatically, based on content), that's unlikely to work. I get annoyed enough when I have to tag my blog posts, and I only write one of them every other month :) > Tracker, Beagle, Spotlight and Windows Search all base everything > around the actual files, later classifying on file type after the > fact, which is a huge performance hit. At least on Vista it excludes > the main drive and only does the user's data, such as Start Menu and > Documents folders. Tracker only indexes your home directory by default as well, AFAIK. (If that's not true, we can certainly make it so.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
