Re: search tool

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

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 07:12, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > 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

I wouldn't let go of gnome-search-tool until Medusa is in the GNOME
platform release.  Medusa is a personal search tool, it doesn't index
system files, which power users may wish.  There are a few schemes to
provide indexing of system files, but that opens up the security issues
that killed Medusa in GNOME 1.4.  Medusa does has a non-index search
that operates like find, but it needs love.

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