Re: Current features and status (desktop crawler comparison)

["D Bera" <dbera web gmail com>]

> - Index removable media
> - Removable media is cataloged (e.g. it's possible to distinguish
> different DVDs from eachother through their unique volume number and
> an optional user-provided string)

Removable media indexing is partially implemented i.e. can be achieved
using the tools currently shipped. Implementing proper support is in
the TODO list.

> - Index archive files recursively (When will you add support for rar and 7zip?)

Archive files are already recursively indexed.
No one I know is working on rar and 7zip indexing.

> - File checksum (allows finding duplicate files)

Not planned.

> I would also like to leave a couple of suggestions/comments:
> 1) Have you ever considered adding "Content-based image retrieval" support?
> You could use imgseek or gnuift as your backend for that task.

There were proposals for such features and relevant discussions can be
found in the mailing list archive and/or bugzilla. But nothing has
been planned. IMO, this kind of feels like a specialized image
indexing software and not quite all-desktop-data search service.

- dBera

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