speeding up KFind

[Andras Mantia]

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On Monday 26 May 2003 10:18, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Monday 26 May 2003 04:12, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 May 2003 23:07, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> > > On Monday 26 May 2003 04:06 pm, Daniel Naber wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > KFind can be very slow if ones searches for file content because it
> > > > searches any file, even large binary files that usually don't even
> > > > contain text. As a fix I suggest to ignore all files that have a mime
> > > > type unlike "text/*". Of course there are exceptions like KOffice and
> > > > OpenOffice.org files (these are the only exceptions currently).
> > > > Searches that don't use the "contains text" field won't be affected.
> > > >
> > > > Is that change okay or will some important files be missed this way?
> > >
> > > Beware application/x-python, x-perl, x-ruby, etc., and similar
> > > mimetypes. Perhaps it can use the new "is it text" functionality that
> > > was added recently?
> >
> > Yes, I think the X-KDE-Text should be used. Otherwise you will miss some
> > pure text documents, which are not under text/*.
>
> I would like to have this replaced by a X-KDE-IsAlso hierarchy. This
> X-KDE-Text should be removed for a general solution ;(

Yes, a general solution would be better. In what shape is this X-KDE-IsAlso 
now?

Andras

>
> Greetings, Stephan

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