Strigi results

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 14:20:00 D. R. Evans wrote:
> O. Sinclair said the following at 01/26/2008 06:11 AM :
> > Honestly,
> > does anyone get something meaningful out of Strigi?
>
> I can speak only for myself, but I can't imagine how Aaron Seigo (who gave
> the recent KDE4 Keynote speech) could possibly think that strigi is
> remotely useful in its current form.
>
> Drop it and use Kerry/beagle, that's my advice.
>
> Desktop search seems to be one of those blind spots where there have been
> several attempts to get it to work well on Linux, but none of them has come
> even close to what's available on Windows, and none of them has really
> worked as well as one would like. No doubt it will be licked at some point
> in the next couple of years (and it could well be strigi that emerges as
> the best application) but it seems to be taking surprisingly long to get it
> right.
I personally like google desktop, very fast and easy to understand, biggest 
drawback, I cant get it to run in kde4..

Mike