[ubuntu-in] need desktop search tool

[Swarup]

On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 01:34 +0530, Mehul Ved wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Swarup <dinbandhu at sprynet.com>
> wrote:
>         I have looked at the alternatives. The first two-- Tracker and
>         Google
>         Desktop, do not search properly using Indic fonts. Strigi and
>         Recoll I
>         will test to see how well they work. It seems like Strigi may
>         be a
>         terminal-based app, which if it is, automatically rules out
>         Indic fonts
>         as one cannot properly type in the terminal window using Indic
>         fonts (at
>         least the ones I use). Recoll I will test. DocFetcher and
>         Pinot are two
>         others which are mentioned in the referenced article. I will
>         have a look
>         at those. If anyone else has experience with these search
>         tools and
>         Indic fonts, please tell us about them.
> 
> Doesn't the inbuilt search tool in GNOME suffice?
> I gave it a try and it is able to detect hindi words in a plain text
> file.

You are right-- I just tested it again and it seems to be working. I'll
have to try using it more to make sure it is accurate. But there are
still some important missing elements in this search tool: 

1. It does not pre-index, and so takes time.
2. It does not show you the sentence in which it found the word.
3. Now with further testing, it seems to be missing more complex words
when I search on them. I will test this more to confirm.

Thank you though for pointing this out. I will give a more detailed
report on this search tool after testing it more.

Regards,
Swarup