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

[todd rme]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Sebastian Trueg <trueg at kde.org> wrote:
> Currently the Nepomuk query API will add a wildcard '*' to each full
> text search term so terms like "Nepo" will also match "Nepomuk".
> Recently some concern has been raised[1] about this practice and I tend
> to agree with it.
> Basically the competing idea is to not add a wildcard automatically but
> let the user specify it like so:
>
> "nepo*"
>
> The advantage is that 1. we would support both wildcard matching and
> non-wildcard matching and 2. simple full-text queries would be speed up
> a little bit. The disadvantage is that it would be a behavioral change
> in the API (the old behavior is not documented though).
>
> So I need some opinions here.

I think it is essential to support non-wildcard matching.  I am not
clear on which should be the default, but in the absence of suggestion
of a good way to force non-wildcard matching I think that this is
really the only option.

-Todd