On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Jan Claeys <<a href="mailto:lists@janc.be">lists@janc.be</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Op dinsdag 12-02-2008 om 17:18 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Sam Tygier:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> why would a typical desktop user ever need to 'locate' a file that is<br>
> not in their home folder?<br>
><br>
> if you can think of any then they are probably targets for improving<br>
> usability.<br>
><br>
> for example, if people are using it to track down documentation, then<br>
> maybe yelp needs improving.<br>
<br>
</div>What we really need is a search system that queries all the known<br>
search backends...</blockquote><div><br>What if we aggregated results from two "trackerd"s: one run by the user on ~, and one run by a "systrackerd" user on /, (possibly excluding /home to prevent duplication)?<br>
<br>As no sensitive files would be owned or readable by systrackerd, I don't see any significant security issues with this.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>John C. McCabe-Dansted<br>PhD Student<br>University of Western Australia