Re: search tool

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

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 09:27, Olaf Fraczyk wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:12, 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
> > 
> > Am I right ?
> I think that not being able to see recent file changes is unacceptable. 
> Such things as reindexing content every day is good for files which
> change relatively rare, but not for desktop users.

Yes.  Everyone agrees that Medusa isn't ready for regular users until
the incremental indexing works.

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