<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2008 12:18 PM, Sam Tygier <<a href="mailto:samtygier@yahoo.co.uk">samtygier@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Scott James Remnant wrote:<br>> Tracker only indexes the home directory of the user who does the search,<br>> slocate indexes the entire disk that everybody can read.<br><br></div>why would a typical desktop user ever need to 'locate' a file that is not in their home folder?<br> <br>if you can think of any then they are probably targets for improving usability.<br><br>for example, if people are using it to track down documentation, then maybe yelp needs improving.<br><br>for advanced who know of locate, and try to use it they will be told how to install it. after installing slocate does it do an index straight away?<br> <font color="#888888"><br>sam</font></blockquote><div><br>Yes, it is a usability problem - I use it to track down libraries when games fail to launch :/ (could not load blah blah shared library).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <font color="#888888"><br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>