Re: search tool

[Olaf Fraczyk <olaf navi pl>]

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.

Regards,

Olaf