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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Nepomuk] In need of input for a desktop search default behaviour
From:       Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-03-19 15:23:04
Message-ID: 201003191623.04553.sebas () kde ! org
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On Thursday 18 March 2010 23:06:44 Leo Sauermann wrote:
> my recommendation:
> 
> google has only "nepomuk" and does not even support "nepo*".
> 
> so, our dear users who are google-trained, will usually try "nepomuk"
> anyway.

Moreover, too many results aren't useful at all, since it just makes it harder to 
find the wanted ones among the returned results.

+1 for the more restrictive default.

> but... the gui should show somewhere that you can do a "complex" search
> where such options (such as *) will be shown, otherwise no one finds out
> (.. people don't read instructions)
> 
> fyi:
> in nepomuk-java we had "nepo* is* a* lovely* project*" searches mostly.
> this worked quite ok but of course is slower and we had not so many
> users as nepomuk-kde, so I would not base the decision on this but
> rather on google/...
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sebas

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