Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

[Boaz Rymland]

Beagle once created huge log files in its directory under my home dir, 
which clogged my filesystem. It took a while to find the culprit but 
afterwards it was pretty fast to purge it from my system :-) . That 
incident, couple with very little use I had for it, convinced me to drop 
it altogether.


Nobody mentioned the long proven, useful and (very) lean on resources - 
Linux command line tools like locate, grep, find, vi and probably a few 
good other "dinosaurs" which I left out of the list. They do what I want 
today to the point that I don't feel an urge to find such a tool as you 
describe. Yes, the downside is considerable as well - they are hard to 
use to the point that probably the new Linux user (=my mother, if she 
would have ever considered using Linux...) will never use them. I just 
mention these tools for the sake of the record :-)


Boaz.


but yes - not trivial command line for the casual user (=my mother, if 
she had used Linux in the first place :-)


Yuval Hager wrote:

> בSaturday 04 April 2009, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak:
>   
>> So I am asking:
>> 1. Which desktop search tool are you using under Linux?
>>     
>
> Beagle. I dumped it once for the same reasons you described, but recently I 
> went for the hunt again, and found that beagle has the most index plugins, 
> and it indexes almost everything I have.
>
>   
>> 2. What are its good and bad points?
>>     
>
> It's not as a hog as it was, it integrates nicely with KDE (kerry). I'm not 
> too impress with its search capabilities, but it does a fairly good job. On 
> occasion I am getting angry with it and closing it until I need it again. 
>
>   
>> 3. How happy are you with it?
>>     
>
> Pretty happy.
>
> --y
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