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face="Arial">I am starting a new thread here since the
discussion veered in a new direction from the original topic
(which was "LXFinder installed instead of LXFind").<br>
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I successfully installed Recoll on Lubuntu, read most of the
manual, and had some exchange with the developer
(Jean-Francois Dockes), who is active. The Recoll home page
is at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/">http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/</a>.<br>
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My take: This is a content search program that will also
accomplish much-less-ambitious file name search. The program
has a sophisticated design, is very flexible, and very well
documented in English and French.<br>
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Apart from the Qt-based GUI, there is command line support, a
KDE KIO slave interface, and a programming interface. (So if
the developers of Catfish or LXFind were so inclined, their
currently file-name-search-only tools could be extended to
content search, all through a single interface.)<br>
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The program has native support for several MIME types that
commonly store readable content, and there are filters for
most of the other common readable-content MIME types.<br>
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However impressive the program is, however, it would seem not
to be a good candidate to replace Catfish as the recommended
GUI search tool for Lubuntu. The dev notes that it is Qt
based, which seems out of step with Lubuntu's aims for
lightness. The database index that powers such impressive
results is also very large -- depending on the mix of content
that it is indexing, the database can be 15-65% the size of
the original content (see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/perfs.html">http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/perfs.html</a>).
Memory usage during indexing can peak at 65 to a couple
hundred MB. File-name indexing is also not its strongest
suit. And it is tuned by default for searching the home
directory rather than the entire file system (though with some
configuration, it would seem to be possible to have it do full
content searching in the home directory and more modest
searching of file names and attributes in the file system at
large).<br>
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So for the moment, I would be content if Catfish could find
its way through its error-handling bug (which I have been
posting about under the topic: "Catfish search result: Fatal
error, search was aborted").<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/8/2012 12:59 PM, Karl Anliot
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<pre wrap="">John, I "don't have time" to test catfish, but if catfish doesn't work.
Please test this out, and post your results!!
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://danaleeling.blogspot.com/2012/09/lubuntu-1204-desktop-search-is-recoll.html">http://danaleeling.blogspot.com/2012/09/lubuntu-1204-desktop-search-is-recoll.html</a>
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:04 PM, John Hupp <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lubuntu@prpcompany.com"><lubuntu@prpcompany.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">In the Lubuntu documentation, Catfish is the currently recommended GUI
search tool. But it notes "Though as of time of writing, LXFind is in the
Lubuntu PPA and is forthcoming shortly."
Elsewhere in a few slim references it seems to be expected for 12.10.
But again, among the few references, a number of users find that the
prescribed installation installs LXFinder instead of LXFind, and LXFinder
does not work. And that is what I found. I set LXFinder searching for a
known-existing file, and it did not find it, but did generate a slew of
"permission denied" errors. I'll add that the LXFinder shortcut does indeed
point to /user/bin/lxfind, so this is not a simple matter of a
mis-constructed shortcut.
My installation commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-desktop/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y lxfind
One thing I notice about the documentation statement, though, is that it
refers to the Lubuntu PPA rather than the lubuntu-desktop PPA which I used
in my installation.
Did I use an obsolete PPA, or is there another good explanation here (or
even a bad but accurate explanation)?
I'll also observe here that I regard GUI file search as a necessary part of
the software stack. It seems like something that's just gotta work on a
modern O/S. And I'm testing LXFind because I found that Catfish generates a
disturbing error result when it can't find a match. (Posted in a separate
thread.)
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