As far as I know with tracked, you're right, it was a slight omission generalizing, but I've seen it on some systems do the whole cake.
James On Oct 15, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Calum Benson wrote: > > 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 >
