Hello, all

[Dik Takken]

> There is also the KAT [1] project, working on a desktop search engine
> for KDE, including fulltext extractors (using KIO) for various formats.
> Scott Wheeler plans a "context framework", to link information (documents,
> mails, notes, web resources, ...) on the desktop, which will include
> desktop search as one application of the framework. [2-4]
> So you might consider to join these projects.

I know about KAT and the ideas of Scott,

Beagle uses the filesystem itself to store the metadata of each file. The 
big advantage if this approach is that it is fast, and the metadata is 
accessible to *all* Linux applications, not just applications of one 
desktop environment. One system that can be accessed by KDE, GNOME, and 
everything else. Another big advantage of Beagle is that it can search any 
resource that connects to it via DBUS. If your address book connects with 
DBUS, Beagle will be able to search your addressbook.

About Scott's ideas: Gathering context information could be implemented in 
KDE and this information can also be connected to DBUS and Beagle. This 
will enable both GNOME and KDE applications to access this context 
information via one single search system.

If I'm not mistaken, Beagle can be the desktop search spider in the Linux 
Desktop web. Applications of both KDE and GNOME should connect to it so 
Beagle can find all information offered by both desktop environments.

So, I'm not sure that implementing our own KDE search tool is useful.

Cheers,

Dik