desktop search inside OOo documents?

[D. R. Evans]

Donn said the following at 08/14/2009 09:29 AM :

> Best I could find, chop-chop:
> http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sf-archives/archives-programming-
> scripting/337622-using-grep-openoffice-files.html

Yes, I was kind of hoping that we had advanced to the point where I
wouldn't need to write (or steal-and-modify) a script. Somehow it doesn't
seem like that should be necessary in 2009.

> 
>> I never can figure out what all these fancy new things like krunner/nepomuk
>> are supposed to do; 
> Hey, I thought I was alone! Can I join your club :D

I keep thinking I'm alone... but then sanity sets in and I figure that the
unwashed masses of users have simply given up drawing attention to the fact
that it/they simply doesn't/don't give predictably useful results. So yes,
you can join the club; the only requirement is that you have tried your
best to make the new stuff return useful results and have given up.

Every few months I try to search for something, just to see if things have
improved, but I don't believe I've ever received a single useful result
from such a test. Even searching for stuff that I know is on my system
doesn't work (the best ones are the ones that simply lock the process and
never return any results, forcing one to kill krunner by hand). I do get
frequent seemingly random results that cause me to wonder "gee if it found
this, why didn't it find what I'm looking for" results.

Doubtless one day it will be as good as google desktop search. Until then,
I guess there's always... google desktop search. I guess I'll just install
that even though I try very hard not to install anything that's not an
officially supported Kubuntu package on this system.

(I'm tempted to add: just as doubtless KDE 4.x will one day be as useful
and efficient as KDE 3.5.10; but I won't say that.)

Sorry; it's Friday and I'm just fed up of things that should easy and
should "just work" turning out to be hard. I didn't intend this to turn
into a whinge. Just ignore me.

  Doc

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