[Nepomuk] In need of input for a desktop search default behaviour

Sebastian Trüg trueg at kde.org
Fri Mar 19 19:48:36 CET 2010


Ok, I think now I have enough pro-comments to make the change. The
question is: should I backport it to 4.4?

On 03/19/2010 04:23 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 23:06:44 Leo Sauermann wrote:
>> my recommendation:
>>
>> google has only "nepomuk" and does not even support "nepo*".
>>
>> so, our dear users who are google-trained, will usually try "nepomuk"
>> anyway.
> 
> Moreover, too many results aren't useful at all, since it just makes it harder to 
> find the wanted ones among the returned results.
> 
> +1 for the more restrictive default.
> 
>> but... the gui should show somewhere that you can do a "complex" search
>> where such options (such as *) will be shown, otherwise no one finds out
>> (.. people don't read instructions)
>>
>> fyi:
>> in nepomuk-java we had "nepo* is* a* lovely* project*" searches mostly.
>> this worked quite ok but of course is slower and we had not so many
>> users as nepomuk-kde, so I would not base the decision on this but
>> rather on google/...


More information about the Nepomuk mailing list