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EWeek: New GNOME Does Search Right

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2006-04-19 11:12. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

For years now, the Linux and open-source desktop has had the benefit of multiple software projects pushing forward to create nicer-looking, more useful environments. One of the most prominent of those projects, GNOME, recently underwent one of its twice-yearly updates, and the result is a compelling set of refinements.

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Well, hopefully either

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-04-19 15:18.

Well, hopefully either beagle plugin for thunderbird shows up or evolution starts handling IMAP folders and offline filtering in a sane manner.

GNOME search

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-04-19 12:16.

Nautilus beagle is awesome and no you dont need 1Gb of ram for beagle, they fixed that leak in the newer version.

However I do notice that beagled does take all your ram and more, so I guess they have not fixed it yet.

Indeed...

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-04-19 16:37.

I have 1G of RAM, but never use more than 350MB. Maybe I'm not multi-tasking enough? ;)

it also enjoys following up

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-04-19 14:57.

it also enjoys following up the main course of ram with a dessert of disk space

Give it time. Beagle is

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-04-19 13:43.

Give it time. Beagle is only at version 0.2. There's still lots of development to go before it's nice enough for a 1.0 version.

BTW, using spotlight on Mac OSX absolutely CRAWLS. Plus whenever I have it open my hard drive goes crazy, implying it's eating up my RAM and the system is thrashing. This is with 512 megs of RAM. So I don't think it's so much Beagle's fault as the fact that this is new technology that hasn't been given a chance to mature yet.

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