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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Easier Searching in KDE
From:       "Jamethiel Knorth" <jamethknorth () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2004-06-07 20:08:09
Message-ID: BAY7-F3aZcdjaS36Il0000029ea () hotmail ! com
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>From: Manuel Amador <rudd-o@amautacorp.com>
>Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:15:23 -0500
>
>El vie, 04-06-2004 a las 11:32, Jamethiel Knorth escribió:
> > However, it is far less useful when just searching for
> > files according to their names.
>
>Who said that?  The search engine is fed metadata other than the file
>name.  It then becomes a really, really powerful thing.

You're right, if the metadata can be properly and swiftly indexed, being 
able to search with directions like 'a song longer than 2 minutes by kill 
hannah' would be very useful. However, all the implementations I've seen 
either required user input for metadata, were slow, or spent a lot of CPU 
usage indexing, none of which is acceptable.

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