Tracker or Beagle?

[runningwithscissors]

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[23meg]

Tracker. With better integration into GNOME in the upcoming releases, and some more bug fixes and performance improvements, it's going to rock (as if it didn't already).

Why?

• It does what it's supposed to do
• I have a real, concrete need for what it's supposed to do; it's not a "luxury"
• Spends way less resources and does its job more elegantly than the rivals
• Free software

[peedeeramone]

i dont know, i used to have beagle installed on feisty, but i rarely used it. when i did i believe it worked fine. now i have tracker in gusty, and i want to use it, but when i search for just about anything, it usually doesnt give me anything except the option to search for it on the internet...

i dont know maybe i dont have it set up right or something

[Xanatos Craven]

If only they had a better results interface.

Sure beats the hell out of having to even look at the KDE3-Strigi in Kubuntu 7.10.

[dada1958]

Quicksilver

[Masoris]

Search result of Beagle is better than tracker, Although Beagle's index speed is slower. So I use Beagle

[timzak]

I don't use either and when I need to search for something I use find.. nobody has been able to sell me on these fancy indexers yet, but maybe I'm old-school.

+1

I don't have a need. I know where my documents are located. In the rare case I need to find a configuration file in the root filesystem, Find (or Search - whatever it's called) in the Locations menu works perfectly. For me it's just a waste of hard drive space and cpu cycles.

[gn2]

I like Catfish.

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Oddly, I have found Beagle to perform better than Tracker of late. I definitely remember it being really heavy on resources when it was young, but now I just don't notice its presence until I use it, at which point I notice that the thing has magically indexed my entire home folder without me noticing. I think this may be because I don't have any crazy options to screw up; with Tracker, I could never figure out how to make it be unobtrusive in the background, and it presents control of details like the nice value. Rather odd, given that Beagle is able to just magically stay out of the way without me needing to touch a thing. I could just be using it wrong, but that's fine with me; I like Beagle's search tool, anyway, so just as long as it works well, I needn't mind the rest.

I love being able to type a complex search phrase, with and / ors, phrases and specific file type. I also agree that it gives very rich results. I have taken to using Beagle as my means of finding relevant programming examples, and it has yet to fail me.

[pluviosity]

Neither. I'm waiting to see if Nepomuk+Strigi in KDE4 will be any good when finished, but for now, I organize my files or find them with the terminal.