Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

[Daniel Drake <dsd gentoo org>]

David Aveiro wrote:
> these files start like this:
>
> <map version="0.8.0">
> <!-- To view this file, download free mind mapping software FreeMind
> from http://freemind.sourceforge.net --> <node CREATED="1116852219791"
> ID="Freemind_Link_1946270058" MODIFIED="1127560061828" TEXT="OM">
> <font NAME="SansSerif" SIZE="12"/>
>
> So because of the starting < Beagle does not index this? Or as beagle
> doesn't recognize mm extension it doesn't even analyse the contents of
> this file?

Beagle generally doesn't look at the file contents directly before deciding 
whether to index the file. Instead, it just indexes by mime-type or extension. 
Currently no filter picks up the ".mm" extension. You can check which mimetype 
the file has using "gnomevfs-info". gnomevfs may do some reading of the file 
to determine its mimetype.

> > To answer your question, there currently isn't anywhere you can list extra 
> > mimetypes/extensions to be picked up by the FilterText filter, other than in 
> > the FilterText constructor itself.
>
>
> Is this too hard to code? Could it be a future preference? Where can i
> put this feature request?

To me, it doesn't make much sense. If there is a file format we don't index, 
we should write a proper filter rather than treating it as plain text.

Daniel