Re: Nemo like display using Beagle?

2008/9/8 Anders Rune Jensen <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Andrew Ruthven <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been doing a little bit of playing with Nemo[0] which looks pretty
>> cool.  But it is busy crawling my file system, just like Beagle is
>> doing.  Just wondering if anyone has investigated modifying Nemo to use
>> the Beagle indexes?
>
> Nemo can work with beagle if you use the beagle-xesam-adaptor.
>
> Just open ~/.nemo/configuration.xml
>
> and change search_tool to beagle.
>
> Now Nemo will still generate its own index of the filesystem but that is
> mainly because xesam doesn't allow us to store metadata, yet.
>

If you where adventurous you could grab a hold of the Beagle index and
crawl that directly. Traversing a Lucene index is quite fast... Would
be an act of great evil and I am sure the wrath of the Beagle lords
would come swift, but just a thought :-)

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Cheers,
Mikkel