Meet the Crazy Search Uncle of KDE
February 9, 2015
We all have those weird relatives that drop by during the holidays or odd times during the year. Ken Starks of Foss Force used the metaphor in “Desktop Search: KDE’s Crazy Uncle” to explain his views about KDE desktop search. Starks says that you can rely on KDE’s desktop search to be unreliable, like that crazy uncle who can’t hold down a job or a marriage.
Kfind, the default search, cannot find any files, especially when Starks knew they were in there. After some grumbling, he shares his experiences with KDS search software that does work. He liked using GNOME, Nepomuk to index, Dolphin, and his current search of choice: Catfish. He stresses that he loves working with KDE, he just wants the out-of-the-box search engines to work well instead of having to download a third party app:
“I installed a search app I use in Xfce and I didn’t have to drag in too many GTK dependencies to do it. It’s called “Catfish”…. find it a bit odd that a third party app surpasses the native KDE search application. Catfish gets it right. It’s a darned shame that it isn’t native to KDE.”
He has gotten some comments about using the command line and fussing with the code, but Starks’ retort is that most users do not know how to use those lines. They want to log into a system and have it work right through the user interface. Crazy idea, is it not?
Whitney Grace, February 09, 2015
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