Colin Walters wrote:
Personally - I'm a bit skeptical of Tracker actually being better than Beagle. I don't have anything substantial, but my instinct on this is that writing a desktop search engine is actually really hard - not barfing on bad files (inherent tension with supporting lots of file types), figuring out all the touchy details of when to do the indexing[1], etc., and that unlike Beagle, Tracker actually hasn't seen wide deployment so it hasn't yet been truly tested.
If testing is the only major issue, it is already in the devel branch of Ubuntu by default so it should get some good testing there and we can just enable it in rawhide - wait and watch the results and decide before the general release of Fedora 8.
Beagle doesn't seem to be actively maintained in Fedora, not installed by default anymore and we don't seem to have enough mono expertise. Not having these saves a good amount of space in the live images too. If you still consider Beagle as the better choice, let's enable it back in rawhide by default then.
Either way, desktop search is a good thing to have by default. Rahul