On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:35 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Clayton wrote: > >>>> I'll go for not throwing up dependency errors if uninstalling, but it > >>>> definitely needs to be in the default install. Most users will want > >>>> Beagle. > >> I doubt this - all the users we have hate beagle and either remove it > >> or ask someone to remove it for them. > > > > Exactly. Other than a few on this mailing list, I have yet to meet > > ANYONE who likes or uses Beagle. The issue is not whether or not > > these people do or do not use a desktop search tool... it's because of > > the major performance impact that happens when Beagle is running. > > > > I can really see the usefulness of the concept behind Beagle... > > especially for a few end users that I know and help out from time to > > time. The trade off though... The system performance impact they are > > all reporting is consistent... and it's consistent with my experience. > > > > To those that say open a bug report... open it and say what? Beagle > > is too slow? Devs will want specifics (and rightly so). I have no > > specifics other than to say that Beagle is not suitable to be used on > > a regular basis because of the performance impact I and every one else > > I know have experienced.... which is basically what almost everyone > > here is saying... minus the few who do have Beagle working fine. > > > > I would like to know how they managed it... if the answer is something > > along the lines of "I opened a terminal, su to root, nice -19ed it and > > then issue this other long string of commands..."... sorry... that > > tells me that Beagle should not be given to the masses by default. If > > it works by default, then why is it working for you and not the rest > > of us? What is different? I install a default install as given me by > > the openSUSE installer and Beagle is consistently a resource hog... > > not only on initial boot, but long long after as well. This is the > > same (in my experience) on clean installs with no user data, and on my > > desktop with its 1.2TB of legacy data across 7 drives. Something > > doesn't make sense here. > > Old saying: > > The beatings will continue until morale improves. > > I think it applies here. > > I cannot believe that the devs are NOT aware of this.... > it's been this way for several years, and they haven't > done shit about it. Which indicates that they just > aren't interested in fixing it. > >
And WHAT exactly makes you think the devs haven't been working on that issue? Are you in communication with the devs who told you they don't care? -- Kevin "Yo" Dupuy | Public Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happy New Year from Yo.media! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
