Ubuntu Wiki

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