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'''MikkelKamstrupErlandsen''' : Nautilus is not linked against Beagle, so it does utilize the searching capabilties of it. Also beagle is not integrated into the filechooser (as I think Novell is doing), or in the web browser for that matter. The keyword is ''integration''. |
A powerful search mechanism deeply integrated with the desktop.
Possible points of integration:
- Nautilus search (Konqueror?)
- Filechooser
- Panel applet
- Web browser (index page content)
- General search interface capable of searching all available contents
- Others?
Resources
[http://beaglewiki.org Beagle] is the obvious candidate for the indexing engine, but there is also the black horse [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker Tracker] currently developed by [http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com Jamie McCracken]. Beagle is the more mature of the two, but Tracker has some advantages over Beagle. A few notable points
- Beagle is developed by Novell which means it will have plenty of cooporate support
- Beagle is written in C#, which makes for a rather large dependancy (storage wise)
- Tracker is written in C and communicates with other apps over a DBUS interface
- Tracker is extremely lightweight, and might even be suitable for embedded systems
- Tracker uses mature technologies such as mysql and libextractor
- Tracker is able to store file metadata on demand
- Tracker has an integrated keyword/tagging functionality
Comments
KillerKiwi : I think this is all covered by Beagle / Nautilus Search and Deskbar in Dapper
MikkelKamstrupErlandsen : Nautilus is not linked against Beagle, so it does utilize the searching capabilties of it. Also beagle is not integrated into the filechooser (as I think Novell is doing), or in the web browser for that matter. The keyword is integration.
IntegratedDesktopSearch (last edited 2008-08-06 16:37:54 by localhost)