Rant: Nepomuk and strigi - solution in search of a problem

[gerard82]

@ iandoug,
Man, thanks very much for the link to recoll!!
I installed 1.16.2 and it is really unbelievable what it is capable of.
I entered .mp3 and it came up with not only the music I have but even with audacity zipped howto where .mp3 was mentioned.
And it shows an icon for the type of file it is,like a loudspeaker for music.
I also tried .xcf which is the native Gimp format it opens Gimp when you click open.
Makes you wonder why the KDE devs are still mucking around with their crap.
Gerard.
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The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
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[albright]

I want to take back what I said about recoll

Because it is a system of good old fashion scripts in plain
text, it was not hard to track down and fix the little
problem I had

(in case anyone is wondering, you need to feed the -o option
to an unzip line if one of recoll's openoffice filter)

recoll is in fact robust, effective and very useful
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