slocate in the default desktop install

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:15 +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> Since very early on, we've shipped slocate as a part of the default desktop
> install in Ubuntu.  This provides an indexed list of filenames on the system
> to assist in searching for a file by name.  I'm not sure whether any of the
> standard desktop applications made use of it, or whether it was only useful
> on the command line.
> 
> Today, at least, it doesn't seem to be used, and more featureful indexed
> searching is provided by tracker, and the overhead of re-indexing daily can
> be inconvenient for laptop users.
> 
Tracker only indexes the home directory of the user who does the search,
slocate indexes the entire disk that everybody can read.

Scott
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