Hi
It is probable that most gentle readers will not construe this post as to mean that I am not going to use Nepomuk/Strigi/Kontact/KDE/etc.
However, to not put too fine a point on it, I am being buried in a document management problem at the college. In addition to that, a nested problem within that has reared it's ugly head; and it is that of finding a term INSIDE a document.
So, I have had to find a search app that will find a term within a document and here are my comments re that situation.
a) Strigi does a great job searching for titles of documents, images, etc. However, it will not, as far as I have been able to determine, return a search for a term INSIDE a document.
b) Recoll, which is in the repos, will, indeed, search, and return a term within a document. It will also search within spreadsheets, although I have not tested that and probably will not use the function.
c) Strigi takes a mind numbing amount of time to do an index of a large number of items, and, although it takes a while, Recoll takes a lot less time(as of this writing, that may change in the future).
EDIT: after the initial index, if one has not put a lot of new data into the system, then the subsequent indexe times for Strigi are much shorter. END EDIT.
For the casual/new reader: There is a "grand overarching goal" for the whole Strigi/Nepomuk/KDE/Kontact/Koffice/etc. situation and that is, quite simply, a grand unified system. "It" is not there yet, but amazing strides have been made in just the past short while, and I think that the wait, and fiddling with "it", will be well worth the wait/effort.
I write the above in the interests of the developers who need many more "eyes on" the apps to make bug reports etc. We can all help in that endeavour.
Note 1: the CLI people will, I am sure, post that grep, and other such, work just fine why not do them? Ummmm I'm not as smart as them, I do GUI!
Note 2: here is a nicely done listing of the top runners in desktop search as of 2010.
If anyone has particular questions I will be glad to answer them as well as my limited experience can do so.
woodsmoke
It is probable that most gentle readers will not construe this post as to mean that I am not going to use Nepomuk/Strigi/Kontact/KDE/etc.
However, to not put too fine a point on it, I am being buried in a document management problem at the college. In addition to that, a nested problem within that has reared it's ugly head; and it is that of finding a term INSIDE a document.
So, I have had to find a search app that will find a term within a document and here are my comments re that situation.
a) Strigi does a great job searching for titles of documents, images, etc. However, it will not, as far as I have been able to determine, return a search for a term INSIDE a document.
b) Recoll, which is in the repos, will, indeed, search, and return a term within a document. It will also search within spreadsheets, although I have not tested that and probably will not use the function.
c) Strigi takes a mind numbing amount of time to do an index of a large number of items, and, although it takes a while, Recoll takes a lot less time(as of this writing, that may change in the future).
EDIT: after the initial index, if one has not put a lot of new data into the system, then the subsequent indexe times for Strigi are much shorter. END EDIT.
For the casual/new reader: There is a "grand overarching goal" for the whole Strigi/Nepomuk/KDE/Kontact/Koffice/etc. situation and that is, quite simply, a grand unified system. "It" is not there yet, but amazing strides have been made in just the past short while, and I think that the wait, and fiddling with "it", will be well worth the wait/effort.
I write the above in the interests of the developers who need many more "eyes on" the apps to make bug reports etc. We can all help in that endeavour.
Note 1: the CLI people will, I am sure, post that grep, and other such, work just fine why not do them? Ummmm I'm not as smart as them, I do GUI!
Note 2: here is a nicely done listing of the top runners in desktop search as of 2010.
If anyone has particular questions I will be glad to answer them as well as my limited experience can do so.
woodsmoke
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