Re: search tool

["Curtis C. Hovey" <sinzui cox net>]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 04:31, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > When a get a handle on Nautilus' new extension API, I'll begin
> > reintegrating Medusa with Nautilus.
> 
> Maybe a stupid question but... what about gnome-search-tool ? Will it
> "merge" in some way with nautilus-medusa search engine ? Or will it be
> discarded ? Or will GNOME have 2 search tools ? Or am I missing anything

gnome-search-tool is a gui frontend to 'find'.  It could be integrated,
but it will not understand all of Nautilus's metadata.  The biggest
advantage to gnome-search-tool integration is that find is proven, and
it would be nice if the file list behaved like Nautilus.

Find is slow, so slow in fact that there is no reason to optimize the
icon creation.  It doesn't know what mime-types or emblems are, nor will
it ever be capable of returning a rich set of metadata to speed up
Nautilus.

Medusa does not do incremental indexing, requiring cron to reindex the
hard drive every day.  Medusa will not see recent file changes until
incremental index is added.  Medusa will take up 5% of the hard drive
until the backend db is replaced.

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