Search Engines (File Managers)

[Outcast]

Does anyone else get exasperated how craaaaap Dolphins search engine (Baloo) is ?

I've been trying to build up a sd card with songs starting in the 1960's for my truck and obviously I can't remember exact years/artists etc coz I'm getting to be an old fart (54).
I'm running KDE because it was my backup drive and my main drive (Ubuntu) kept getting bad block errors.

Dophin just can't find something if you don't put damned near the exact term in to search which kind of defeats the purpose of search when you can't remember the the exact filename !

I ended up installing Kfind and Nautilus

Here's a Face-Off between them I did if anyones interested ?

Probably better to view in full screen and up the res or you wont be able to read the search

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUN58XiKYoc&feature=youtu.be

 

[OhEsEcks]

I haven't used KDE as a main distro in several years, but I always have a poke around when a new version launches. From what I know baloo is just the next version of nepomuk. And I ****ing hated nepomuk.

Gnome uses tracker, which I've always found really good. However, currently on Fedora I've found that the *store, *miner and *extract components have been stressing the hell out of my CPU for absolutely no reason whatsoever. It's like every time they decide to fire up to do an indexing crawl, they ramp my CPU to ludicrous warp speed and cause all my fans to spike.

Spotlight, on OSX is probably still the best graphical file manager on a *nix system I've used. Regardless of how much crap you have on a system (which is a lot of music in my case), it's always quick and fluid. And it doesn't seem to cause huge spikes in CPU activity as it goes about it's business.

Although none of them compare to searching via a terminal but;

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