Re: Nautilus search, memory usage, hidden files, webinterface

["Bjørn Haagensen" <bhaagensen gmail com>]

Hi,

On Nov 15, 2007 10:45 PM, D Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:

> libbeagle API changed in 0.3.0 - the changes were minor but ilbbeagle
> clients need to be rebuilt with libbeagle1.so.0 (instead of
> libbeagle0.so.0)

Oh well. I'll try that. Luckily it's so easy in Ubuntu, so if
rebuilding nautilus against libbeagle1.so.0 is all it takes, I guess
that's a workaround.

>
> > 3. Beagle indexes dot-files- and directories. Is this a new feature?
> > Why? Was there a discussion on the list about this?
>
> Are you sure about this one ? dot-files and directories should not be
> indexed! Do you get those in search results ?

Pretty much so. I thought it was very strange. For obvious reasons I
had to create an exclude pattern for ~/.beagle. Still I suspect this
causes some havoc for me.

bh lifebook34:config$ beagle-query i7sfifd9.default
Debug: Done reading conf from /home/bh/.beagle/config/Daemon.xml
Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/Daemon.xml
file:///home/bh/.bash_history
file:///home/bh/.mozilla/firefox/i7sfifd9.default
...

bh lifebook34:config$ cat Daemon.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<BeagleConf xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; Name="Daemon">
  <BoolOption Name="AllowStaticBackend" Description="Search static
indexes">False</BoolOption>
  <ListOption Name="DeniedBackends" Description="Disabled backends"
Params="Backend name" Separator=",">
    <Value>Thunderbird</Value>
    <Value>Akregator</Value>
    <Value>Blam</Value>
    <Value>KMail</Value>
    <Value>KNotes</Value>
    <Value>KOrganizer</Value>
    <Value>KAddressBook</Value>
    <Value>KonqBookmark</Value>
    <Value>KonquerorHistory</Value>
    <Value>Konversation</Value>
    <Value>Kopete</Value>
    <Value>Liferea</Value>
    <Value>Opera</Value>
  </ListOption>

bh lifebook34:config$ cat FilesQueryable.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<BeagleConf xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; Name="FilesQueryable">
  <ListOption Name="ExcludePattern" Description="Exclude files
matching these patters" Params="Pattern" Separator=",">
    <Value>*whizzy*</Value>
  </ListOption>
  <ListOption Name="Roots" Description="Root directories that the file
system backend will index" Params="Root" Separator=",">
    <Value>/home/bh/CVS</Value>
  </ListOption>
  <ListOption Name="ExcludeSubdirectory" Description="Exclude files in
this subdirectory" Params="Subdir name" Separator=",">
    <Value>/home/bh/mounts</Value>
    <Value>/home/bh/local/matlab73</Value>
    <Value>/home/bh/BH-desktop</Value>
    <Value>/home/bh/Downloads/Torrents</Value>
    <Value>/home/bh/.beagle</Value>
  </ListOption>
</BeagleConf>

Thanks for the hints about memory debugging. I'll see if I get time to
look into it.

Bjørn