On 8/7/07, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Personally - I'm a bit skeptical of Tracker actually being better than > Beagle. I don't have anything substantial, but my instinct on this is > that writing a desktop search engine is actually really hard - not > barfing on bad files (inherent tension with supporting lots of file > types), figuring out all the touchy details of when to do the > indexing[1], etc., and that unlike Beagle, Tracker actually hasn't seen > wide deployment so it hasn't yet been truly tested. I don't expect any implementation of an indexer to be perfect. But what I desperately need, is an implementation that expects to run into problems and knows how to communicate back to the users when it runs into a problem indexing a file... so we can attempt to actually report something credible and reproducible. My biggest beef with beagle wasn't that it sat there and chewed system resources. My biggest beef with beagle was that there was no obvious feedback to a user nor a way to query what the exact nature of the problem is while its happening. if tracker doesn't do a better job of problem feedback, it's not going to taste better. -jef -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
