On 28 August 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > In one word, there is no useable desktop search engine for linux. > > > > they are called 'locate', 'find' and 'grep'. > > good tools, fast tools. Feel the love, people
Yup but not so suitable for users that aren't computer freaks but want their work done. > > > If you know how to use them, you'll have a lot of fun. > > What is this desktop search engine thingy whereof the OP speaks? I do > not know of such a thing... Something where you can tell the computer: I want granny's photo that came in with an email from uncle George. It's about using lots of metadata for finding objects. Quite honestly, why should a secretary be concerned about the exact name and location of a file that contains a quotation of product A for customer B? She should be able to ask the computer for "quotation, product A, customer B" and get it. With cheap storage space available, we tend to keep more and more data on our harddisks. Last time I did a file count in my home directory, it came up with 170,000 files (including sub-directories). It's a pain to keep that amount of data organised in a hierarchical filesystem. Better let the computer do the hard work. It might not be the right tool for you and me, but there are lots of users out there for whom it is the right thing - if it doesn't use too much of system resources. KDE4 will hopefully get it right. Uwe -- Jack Nicholson: My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
