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Bug 2331

Summary:	Drop kerry support or maintain obsolete beagle sources
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Darrell <darrella>
Component:	non-core programs	Assignee:	Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugwatch, darrella, michele.calgaro
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.0.x [Trinity]
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	3060

Description Darrell 2015-01-27 18:04:28 CST

Kerry is a front-end to the beagle desktop search engine. Beagle is obsolete and not maintained.

Comment 1 Michele Calgaro 2015-01-27 18:12:27 CST

Actually in Debian/Ubuntu libbeagle is already maintained. Perhaps we should move libbeagle to the main repo instead of being an external dependency.
Kerry builds fine in those distros.

Comment 2 Darrell 2015-01-27 18:35:53 CST

To my knowledge there is no official support for beagle in Slackware or Fedora. I had not checked the LMDE repositories. Thus my filing the bug report.

In a way this raises a more general question: what desktop search tools exist for Trinity? KFind uses find as a backend and tdeio-locate adds slocate backend support, but neither find nor locate provide indexing. KFfind supports content searching, but is slow because there is no indexing.

I suppose many TDE users are comfortable with opening konsole and using find + grep to search file content, but that is still not the same as using a search engine index such as doodle, tracker, strigi, etc. Using find + grep requires some knowledge of where to start looking in a file system rather than starting at /.

Because KFind supports content searching, perhaps the better long-term approach is adapt KFind to use existing search engine indexes?

Comment 3 Darrell 2015-01-30 08:22:53 CST

>KFind uses find as a backend
According to bug 693, kfind does not use find as a backend but a tdeio job. Kind of explains why kfind is slow compared to the find command.

Comment 4 Michele Calgaro 2018-08-02 20:51:18 CDT

Slavek and I have decided to drop Kerry from R14.1.0 since beagle may no longer be available in most distros and beagle is no longer in development since 2009.

Comment 5 Michele Calgaro 2018-08-04 06:16:19 CDT

Slavek and I have change our mind. Rather than dropping Kerry, we will import libbeagle into main repo, since libbeagle is already used in debian/ubuntu as extra dependency, so the effort required is minimal.

Comment 6 Michele Calgaro 2020-02-09 02:39:35 CST

As discussed here (https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/kerry/issues/6) kerry has been removed from TDE.