Re: Search and documentation

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

Should we consider adding a preference to the beagle-search interface
to control this? Maybe we could just add a small score modifier to the
documentation. (since it was not created by the user) Or we could even
add a system wide score modifier which scores files created by the
currently running user a tiny bit higher (since one is far more likely
to search for something that they own permissions wise) we could again
make it something that can be disabled from the command line for some
of those more elaborate nfs setups where permissions might be odd.

Just a thought.

-Kevin

On 4/4/06, Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 19:31 -0400, Christian Lupien wrote:
> > I have seen that in search/Search.cs, the documentation Source has been
> > disabled. Is there a special reason for that?
>
> Yes, because it floods the results you get back.  There was a tradeoff
> to be made here: will people be searching among their data in
> beagle-search, or would they be looking for help?  In our user testing,
> we found that the former was what people wanted, and the number of help
> items that came back was annoying.
>
> Plus, we added Beagle-enabled search in the GNOME help browser, so you
> can still find the help you're looking for.
>
> > Is there a way to enable it from the GUI or does it require a program
> > change and recompile?
>
> It requires a recompile.  Just remove that block of code.
>
> Joe
>
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