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Subject: Re: Easier Searching in KDE
From: Manuel Amador <rudd-o () amautacorp ! com>
Date: 2004-06-09 19:05:16
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El mar, 08-06-2004 a las 03:11, Dik Takken escribió:
> Each plugin should decide for itself if it should cache and extract
> (meta)data, you can't decide this globally for the whole search system.
I agree on this.
> Indexing may be useful for one plugin but useless to another. Metadata
> extracting will probably be meaningless for most plugins.
I disagree on this, though. For most plugins, metadata extraction would
be great.
Note when I say plugin I mean a specialized piece of software that
extracts data/metadata from a file, then feeds it onto a searchable
index. NOT a search UI plugin.
>
> Yes, the file search plugin may benefit from indexing, and we may
> develop a extra-powerful file search plugin that can extract metadata
> as well. Users who have the computer power to use that plugin are free to
> do so, people who don't use the basic plugin. But these are
> all implementation details. For now, we should discuss the big picture
> only.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dik
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