What is beagle supposed to find?

[Gerry Tool]

The GUI menu item Places > Search has replaced the older working Places
> Find Files or some such name.  The old one always located files on my

computer if I entered a partial file name.

The current Search app, beagle, seems to be useless.

[gerry@fc5t3 ~]$ rpm -q beagle
beagle-0.2.1-12

I have preferences set to index my home directory and the system
root, /.  If I enter fedora as the search string in the Find: box, I
first get a message that nothing was found, and then after a wait of
about 20 seconds, all I get is references to messages held in Evolution
for this mailing list.

If I cd to my home directory and execute

grep -R fedora *

I get many results of files containing the string fedora.

If I execute

locate fedora

I get many files with fedora in the name.

How is one supposed to use beagle to find these things?

I would really like to see this tool be useful.

Thanks.

Gerry

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

> The current Search app, beagle, seems to be useless.

I agree with you.

I have configured beagle to also include indexes from
beagle-crawl-system and, although the command-line interface to Beagle
works fine, the Search GUI application does not find anything.

For example:

$ beagle-query beagle
file:///usr/share/applications/gnome-beagle-search.desktop
file:///usr/share/applications/gnome-beagle-settings.desktop
file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
file:///usr/share/doc/fedora-release-4.92/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html

However, searching for "beagle" using the GUI only returns results for
"Search" and "Search & Indexing" elements.

Why?

[Alexander Larsson]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 20:51 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > The current Search app, beagle, seems to be useless.
>
> I agree with you.
>
> I have configured beagle to also include indexes from
> beagle-crawl-system and, although the command-line interface to Beagle
> works fine, the Search GUI application does not find anything.
>
> For example:
>
> $ beagle-query beagle
> file:///usr/share/applications/gnome-beagle-search.desktop
> file:///usr/share/applications/gnome-beagle-settings.desktop
> file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
> file:///usr/share/doc/fedora-release-4.92/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
> file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
>
> However, searching for "beagle" using the GUI only returns results for
> "Search" and "Search & Indexing" elements.
>
> Why?

I asked the beagle developers, and they said the search GUI explicitly
removes the documentation indexes from the search, because otherwise
hits from there overwhelms your own hits. However, search in the help
browser (yelp) searches the documentation.

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[Ben Steeves]

On 3/1/06, Alexander Larsson  wrote:
> I asked the beagle developers, and they said the search GUI explicitly
> removes the documentation indexes from the search, because otherwise
> hits from there overwhelms your own hits. However, search in the help
> browser (yelp) searches the documentation.

Hrm. It would make more sense to put them in their own section so you
can ignore them if you want.  A hacking we shall go...

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