Desktop search tool using lucene

Horst von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Sun Jun 26 20:52:04 UTC 2005


Marco Meyerhofer <marco_meyerhofer at freesurf.ch> wrote:
> Today desktop search tools are killer-apps, the hype about Beagle or
> Spotlight is really big. I think that Fedora needs a search tool to be
> competitive.

If you say so...

[...]

> It shouldn't be to hard to wright a tool based on lucene or a port of
> it. The hard things are live indexing (gamin??) and application
> integration.

> It would be great to see a desktop search tool in Fedora.

Congratulations! You've just found your very own open source project to
work on.
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