[Wylug-discuss] KDE

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 04 Jan 2006 22:02, RichardA wrote:
>
> Beagle, Spotlight et al may change that. Why organise anything when
> there's a live, multiple-format search facility?
>
Maybe, and maybe not.  With Mandriva 2006 kat is installed by default.  
Yes, I know it has moved on in the last few months, but the truth is 
that if you allow kat to stay on a clean install, new box, no data 
already there, it will behave quite nicely.  At least it did on the 
laptop where I installed it.  People who installed it on boxes with the 
normal large quantities of data have found a huge hit on resources, 
often taking over the box to the point of making it unusable.

The idea of being able to easily search within files is nice, but after 
years of living without it I much prefer to use multiple-nested folders 
to make searching easier.  For finding files, slocate does a quick 
enough job for me, unless, of course, I can't remember the file-name, 
in which case a gui file manager is quicker than trial and error.

Anne
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