Re: search tool

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

> 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.

So, if I understand well, the right thing to do is:
 - integrate medusa into Nautilus (which you seem working on)
 - get rid of gnome-search-tool

Am I right ?

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Julien Olivier <julo altern org>