gnome.org — Beagle desktop search, while useful, tends to consume way to much system resources, which leaves out Linux users that care about high performance or have older machines. Tracker is a high performance search engine written in C, uses only 3-9 megs of ram and is very Laptop-friendly. Features nautilus and deskbar support for seamless integration.
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zongedApr 3, 2007
Why do people need to search their computer? I've never forgot where something is lol
diggapleazeApr 3, 2007
you don't. you type:sudo apt-get install trackerOr you can use a GUI like synaptic or gnome-app-install
diggapleazeApr 3, 2007
@carett:Actually OO runs just fine without java. You can turn it off in the options. It actually makes it run faster. OO.o devs are phasing out the java dependence of OO.
chandonApr 3, 2007
carrett - You do realize that C++ runs on even more operating systems / platforms than Java does, right? If you use Standard C++, no porting is required for any of those systems (well, mostly - but the exceptions aren't relevant to an app like OpenOffice). It's true that there are a couple places where an application *must* diverge from Standard C++ to be useful, but those are mostly GUI issues and are easily covered by cross platform GUI toolkits (Gtk, Qt, WxWidgets, etc). It's extremely unlikely that Java solves any cross platform issues that haven't been solved already in a cross platform GUI application the size of OpenOffice.
wyzardApr 3, 2007
Or wait until it becomes more mainstream and distributions compile Tracker support into Nautilus by default.
osakawilsonApr 3, 2007
An application isn't finished until it has a functioning installer. A second best would be a description of how to install which covers ALL the steps necessary to successfully install the application. Tracker has neither of these.The following is the entire set of directions for installing Tracker on Edgy:Ubuntu Edgy (x86 arch) - add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.listdeb <a class="user" href="http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/">http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/</a> edgy main(download this GPG key and import it into APT using "sudo apt-key add biebl.asc")This is basically useless to me and everyone else who doesn't know where my /etc/apt/sources.list is.
xenogisApr 4, 2007
I rarely lose files also. In my home directory I have "Pictures" "Videos" "Programs" "Documents" and "Desktop" then inside those directories there are more directories until I get very specific of the file type. It is really nice.
jake3988Apr 6, 2007
Huh? Something /faster/ than 'locate'?Locate is almost instantaneous. Windows a search on a large computer could take 5+ minutes. Linux is smart because you can just index the files and search in an instant.
Closed AccountApr 12, 2007
locate doesn't search on CONTENT of the files only on their filenames.