System Wide Desktop Search?

[raid517]

OK I confess to a couple of misconceptions about what Intotify involved. 
I was led to believe it allowed for live real time monitoring of system 
wide file changes - which search facilities like this could use to 
provide live real time searching. It is entirely possible that I have 
been mistaken.

Anyway, having read about Tenor, it sounds just the ticket! Search 
should be a deep rooted functionality, not just of the desktop - but of 
the entire OS. With storage capacities ever growing, it is vital that 
files and folders (and other items) can be accessed both instantly and 
intuitively. So it is certainly at least a little encouraging if KDE 
developers are now beginning to talk about this seriously.

If all of this is going to be in KDE 4, then all I can do is join in the 
chorus and say that it looks to me as though KDE 4x really is going to rock!

I do care about KDE, I have been a user for 4 years. I am simply very 
keen to see it compete and even exceed the very best that Apple and MS 
can come up with.

So far the signs are looking encouraging.

GJ

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

>On Saturday 29 October 2005 23:12, raid517 wrote:
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>>Regrettably however there has been little movement at all on the KDE 
>>front in this regard.
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>probably because we're hoping not to do it half-assed and are facing the 
>upcoming kde4 which will allow us actually provide these facilities 
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>>My wish for KDE is to see true desktop search functionality embedded
>>directly into the core of Konqueror - in a similar way to the way Apple
>>plan to make Spotlight a core component of their finder.
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>this is on the kde4 plan
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>>My proposal is that kfind should in due course be considered obsolete in
>>it's current form and should be replaced by exactly this kind of system
>>wide desktop search support
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>agreed
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>>This is important for a number of reasons. First this is the direction
>>in which the kernel is going, so clearly the kernel developers feel that
>>Inotify is the future.
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>what, besides having better notification of file changes, does inotify have to 
>do with desktop search? and remember that kde needs to be portable =)
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