This weekend, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting will be held at the Université Libre in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM, being one of the biggest European Free Software events usually attracts several thousand people each year. The schedule for the KDE devroom is now published. Highlights this year include talks about the semantic desktop, a workshop on educational software and naturally an overview of the status of KDE 4. For the first time we are running a series of cross desktop talks together with Gnome where you can hear how desktop search engine Strigi works. KDE and friends also make appearances in the Lightening Talks track with topics including CMake, OpenWengo and Amarok. If you are planning to visit FOSDEM, add your name to the FOSDEM 2007 Wiki Page.
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I'd love to know to what degree desktop search is usable in Linux, now. When I was busy looking at this stuff in December 2005, there didn't appear to be a properly working desktop search engine yet.
I'm currently using the Google Desktop on Windows XP, and it's such a shame Google hasn't got a version of it for Linux - even if it wouldn't index anything, I'd still be able to easily search my existing Windows index for all the files I've had since 2004, and all the pages I visited since years ago as well.
I guess I should try it with Wine soon, I hear it's really coming along nicely, but I've never actually tried to get a Windows app working with it. Anyone have experience with Google Desktop on Wine?
Have you ever tried Beagle with the Kerry front-end? Looks like what you want. I haven't tried it out myself yet, though.
Works fantastic in Kickoff, the new startmenu of opensuse 10.2
I'll see if I can install it on Kubuntu 6.06. The only Desktop Search-like thing I remember using on Linux was something - that kept crashing - called Kat.
Thanks!
Who cares about Google search. Kerry is very usable (at least in Suse).
I'll just say it again:
"I'd still be able to easily search my existing Windows index for all the files I've had since 2004, and all the pages I visited since years ago as well."
I use my index a lot. Using any different desktop search, even on Windows, would mean losing my index, or having to search both indexes with 50% of all desktop queries I'm doing.
But I welcome you to make sure Kerry is compatible with Google Desktop's index! :-)
Yes, beagle is real crap compared with google desktop search. But strigi also points into the right direction.
Check out the Metalink ( http://www.metalinker.org/ ) lightning talk on Sunday at 11:20. It's an XML list of mirrors and other stuff for downloads. openSUSE uses it, and it will be supported in KDE4's KGet.
http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/events/70