Re: Showing All Matches

[Debajyoti Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

Hi,

> I have a question. :)
So here is an answer :)

> I run KDE on openSuSE 10.2 Linux. So, I like to use the beagle-search
> gui to search for terms. When I enter a term to be searched, the gui
> doesn't necessarily display all the matches. For example, if I enter my
> wife's name into the search box, beagle-search displays the matches.
> However, at the bottom of the window it states, "Showing the top 329 of
> 697 matches." I can't seem to find anyway to get it to display ALL the
> matches. Is it possible? Can the rest of the matches be displayed as

beagle-search does not display all matches. There could be some usability 
reasons behind it, I dont quite know. From performance point of view, getting 
all the hits, which could potentially be thousands (e.g. a query on 
dashboarch-hackers in my mails) - and transferring them to another process, 
can be a performance bottleneck.

You can use beagle-query (the CLI tool) to get all matches. It accepts a 
command line argument to set the maximum number of matches. Obviously, the 
API allows setting any number as max-hit (if unset, the default is 100), so 
you can write you own client to get all hits ;-).

- dBera

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