Is Beagle a Good Thing?

[Steven Stern]

Bruce Byfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:26 +0000, dexter wrote:
>
>   
>>> I don't recall ever starting beagled,
>>> and it does not seem to be listed by chkconfig.
>>>       
>
>   
>>> What exactly does it do?
>>>       
>
> "Teaches users bad habits," is my first response. Beagle, like Tracker,
> is designed for people who dump everything into the top level of their
> home directory, instead of organizing them into meaningful folders. If
> you've taken the time to organize yourself, then apps like Beagle and
> Tracker seem a large committment of resources just to accomodate people
> who won't learn good work habits. ;-)
>
>   
Until you have too many folders, too many years of files and not enough 
coffee. I use Google Desktop and I have added /etc to its index.  It 
makes it very easy to find find, for example, all files that make 
reference to "ath0" or contain "radeon".