On 1/19/07, Douglas Phillipson <phillipd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been trying to figure out how to use Beagle. I finally determined that even though there is a "beagle-gui" package installed, the binary for the gui apparently is "beagle-search". It doesn't appear to be too resource intensive on my FC6 box but for being a package that is supposed to make it easy to find things, it sure was hard to find. It doesn't seem to be in any of my Fedora menu's, that I can find anyway. Do any of the file managers, or other programs on Fedora, have Beagle hooks, options, etc which can take advantage of what Beagle finds and indexes? My Beagle, Max, is far more friendly and easier to find. Follow the "woof" sound...
I have just been dealing with this recently since I upgraded my old laptop from FC5 to FC6 and experienced some desktop disruption due to the continual indexing that Beagle does. It is only a 850 MHz CPU that scales down to 750 MHz randomly to save power and that seems to be the boarder-line between Beagle being non-invasive and Beagle driving you nuts. I believe that Beagle is simply the "Search" option in the menu. When you pull that up, you can pull up the Preferences for Beagle and effectively neuter it without having to uninstall it. A combination of that and pegging my CPU at 850 MHz by using the "performance" mode seems to give me the "feel" that FC5 gave me when my CPU scaled back to 750 MHz. I would love to be able to use Beagle on that laptop as I think it is a pretty cool technology but I, understandably, had to cut corners to make my machine not drive me insane. /Mike
