GNOME 2.17.91 has been released, which is the second beta en route to GNOME 2.18, planned for a release in March this year. See the GNOME 2.17 page on the GNOME wiki for more details on the release schedule.
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Member since:2005-07-09
Beagle won't go in by default (it's too resource intensive), but fortunately tracker ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ ) appears to be going in and it appears to be a lot less resource intensive and faster. Tracker's design is split into a backend metadata extractor database and a front end search which allows it to be reused in other parts of GNOME. For instance, here's how it's used in Nautilus integration:
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/6883.html
Member since:2005-11-14
Member since:2005-11-02
tracker ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ ) appears to be going in and it appears to be a lot less resource intensive and faster. Tracker's design is split into a backend metadata extractor database and a front end search which allows it to be reused in other parts of GNOME.
Tracker is really great. I just installed it on Ubuntu Dapper running on a 700MHz Celeron with only 128MB RAM. Absolutely minimal overhead, you don't notice it's there. The the GUI front end is light and simple but effective and the search is lightning fast.
The backend daemon is standalone and can be searched from the command line. So you dont need GNOME, a DE or even a WM to use it. I believe that a KDE front end and Konqueror integration is under develpment.
Member since:2006-01-10
Wow never heard about this - looks promising. It seems right now Tracker is behind Beagle when it comes to what file types are able to being indexed, I especially like the ability to search trough emails and my Gaim logs - but I hope this functionality will be added soon.
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2006-01-10
Although a Gnome user, I haven't followed the 2.18 feature plans at all. Are there any plans to have some kind of integrated desktop search (Beagle) not only like the deskbar applet, but also in "open file" dialogs, Nautilus etc.? I've been sceptic about desktop search, but once you get used to it, you don't want to miss it anymore ;-)