[Wftl-lug] desktop search tool

[Raul Montagne]

Hi,
Following Patrick advice I'm testing the three searching desktop engines.
First impressions:
Strigi
    I don't like the interface at all,*very* primitive. I uninstalled.
GoogleDesktop:
    Although it is still indexing my computer.
    With 63% of job complete find very accurelly some articles, emails 
and stuff that I tried (I put the word synchronization and pop up 
several pages of entries (as it should!) and for my pleasure there were 
a lot of my pdf article that I buried in my PC.... and it was fast 
(double ctrl. is very nice)
Great job.
The bad things could be, it needs an external browser to show the 
result. In my case, I'm using KDE (Kubuntu) and put as my default 
browser Firefox. So google opens the search result in another tab in the 
already open Firefox.
The other thing, as James already point it out, is that it doesn't look 
by file names.

Beagle:
The indexing in one machine ended. It gives me a lot of entrance.
There are two front ends. Kerry a KDE applet, quite useful. It waits in 
the tray of the panel of the desktop, with the Basket, kmixer, ...
The other front end (not available in the repositories of Kubuntu-Edgy 
but it is in Feisty) is Catfish.
This one is very cool. It is a front end for several search engines. You 
can choose which search engine you will use, Beagle, find or (s)locate.
This would solve your problem, James, as with find (or locate) you will 
be able to look for file by its name file.

The bad thing could be what Michael point out, it is a port from MS .NET 
stuff...
So it may be discontinued at some future..
But with Google it may happen some time in the future too.... once 
Google company has no more profits they could to "size down"...

I saw this in the past, having now several useless emails accounts and 
service no longer supported for company that get out of business or near 
of it

More report to come... as soon as the indexing ends

hope it helps to someone

talueguito
raul
  
Michael


>
> One thing to be aware of is that Beagle is built around Mono, which is
> a port of Microsoft's .NET stuff.  Many open-source advocates have a
> problem with Mono insofar as its basically being a means of
> legitimizing .NET in the Linux sphere; much the same argument is being
> used against Moonlight as a port of Silverlight.  It must also be
> pointed out that Miguel de Icaza is behind both ports -- and he's the
> same guy that called MS's OOXML "a superb standard" a short time
> ago...
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_(software)>
>
> ~~


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