[KLUG Members] OSS 10 and Beagle

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Hey, I noticed that Open Suse 10 comes with Google's desktop search
> tool.  I'm wondering if anyone actually uses it, and if they have
> good/bad things to say about it.

Haven't tried it.

> Because I have no use for Beagle, I decided it would be best to remove
> it.  Turns out, that the the package dependencies for Beagle are quite
> intertwined into the main system.  For example, Nautilus depends on it,
> and now refuses to run.  There must be some sort of work around for this
> problem.  

Not that I'm aware of.  They'd probably have to build Nautilus with
searching disabled,  which no one would want.

> Am I wrong for thinking that this dependency is a bit ridiculous?

Yes.  

> Thoughts?

What is the point of dozens of apps implementing searching?  Some will
do it well, some will do it poorly,  some will find some things, some
will find other things,  blah blah...  There should be a central
desktop-wide search facility that understands all the various content
types - that is Beagle.  Applications can add knowledge about themselves
to Beagle via plugins when they are installed;  content based searches
are dramatically more useful than brute-force filesystem searches.
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