[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 80854] beagle's workings are not transparent enough

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: beagle

Right now it's impossible to tell much about what beagle is doing and
how well it's working. (OK, it could be just very not-obvious, or I have
a brain bug.)

I couldn't find out with any certainty:

(1) Exactly what is it indexing. The config window has an option to
index home and a list of folders I can ask it to index, and that's it.
However, I know for sure it indexes applications and some documentation
files. I'd like to know exactly what else it's doing, and perhaps to
config it. (For example, I may have documentation lying in some other
folder than /usr/share/docs or whatever it's using.) Is it indexing chat
logs? mail? gmail? firefox cache/bookmarks? It needs a way to see this
easily (other than 'beagle-info').

(2) Exactly how much it has indexed. I installed it a week ago and this
morning it still claimed it was working. And BTW, I clicked on the
"don't show this anymore", and now I have no way of knowing if it's done
or not except guessing from "ps -A |grep beagle". I'd like to know how
much it indexed, a rough estimate of how much it still has to work, how
big the index is (and where it is), perhaps how much work it actually
did (processor time? words-in-index count?) and how well it went
(MB/s?).

(3) Exactly how is it indexing. Is it using extended attributes? Is it
using inotify? I notice it can stop indexing when on battery power. If
inotify works, I'd like to have the option of stopping _crawling_ on
battery power, but not re-indexing of changed files.

I'm sorry if this sounds like a rant, I'm just not good enough with
English to make it more like constructive criticism :)

And yes, I realize this might need forwarding upstream. However, for
beagle's creators these are wishlist items, while for Ubuntu they're
bugs, because Ubuntu cares about usability more than most other
projects.

Somewhat unrelated and probably too soon, but I'd also like a system
that manages indexing-plugins and integrates with the package manager.

** Affects: beagle (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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beagle's workings are not transparent enough
https://launchpad.net/bugs/80854