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Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 6:22 UTC (Tue) by Zero_Dogg (subscriber, #31310)In reply to: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
I agree, we need a common search backend (possibly with some simple plugin architecture so that additional filetypes and such can be added), and then we can just have different interfaces. One official per desktop environment (GNOME Desktop Search, KDE Desktop Search, XFce Desktop Search...) that just uses the same backend. That would probably improve the quality of the search tools available and reduce the amount of double work.
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Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 8:46 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
One backed makes sense when there are well-defined problem. Search is definitely not well-defined problem (why do we have Google, Yahoo, etc ?). Sure - if you have limited number of files to be searched... you don't need any search engine at all: grep is enough. If you have a lot of files - you have tough (and not well-defined) problem.
Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 11:29 UTC (Tue) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]
For me, having a choice of backends is important. I've tried and tried to use and like beagle, but it just keeps busting my machine. The last time I got OOM because of a rogue beagle indexing process was the final straw.
Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 18:34 UTC (Tue) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
The strigi author started talks about a comon interface between searchsystems, so apps can just use dbus to talk to whatever is running.
But I don't get what you want. You want 1 search engine, and all apps
using it? With a plugin interface? Lovely, but each of the current project
tries to BE that search engine. They all have a plugin interface, and try
to be a desktop-independend standard... So who's gonna have to abandon
their project? Are you going to tell them? And will they listen?