On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!': >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.
$ find /home/bss | wc -l 158254 $ du -sh /home/bss 2.6T /home/bss $ du -s /home/bss 2695039198 /home/bss Desktop search would be a useless waste of resources for me. I don't spend much time organizing files, but I do think about where to put them when I create/save them. I know where all my data is already. >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. As long as I can turn it off, I think providing a feature many users want (3 of the 4 Linux users in my house) is a good use of developer resources. Heck, I might even like it once I try it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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