pinot

[Jelle de Jong]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:57:10 +0200
Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> do you have experiences with pinot/xapian? We talked about having an 
> indexer and search interface even before Dapper but it doe snot look 
> like we have many apps to choose from. We'd need something with features 
> like beagle but lighter (C/C++, gtk only)
> 
> Another is tracker (not yet in feisty) which uses gnome deps though and
> it's author is trying to propose it for inclusion in the next gnome 
> release but with not much support from others.
> 
> So if any of you have used either pinot or tracker please share your 
> experience
> 
> thanks
> Jani

I believe zenwalk has implemented some search engine in there xfce environment. Also the GUI around the find command in ubuntu looks nice. Just some idea's :-p 
I personally use the command-line and the find and locate commands.