GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 370949
Documentation tile/category in beagle-search
Last modified: 2007-12-17 21:00:29 UTC
It seems that beagle is no searched in indexed documentation, although it is being indexed. Digging in the code, it seems that for some reason that search is disabled, and have to be enabled by changing the code. Attached patch solves it.
Created attachment 76015 [details] [review] makes beagle-search actually search in indexed documentation
Hmmm, that makes sense to me, although well probably wait to hear why that decision was made, maybe to many irrelivant results? I'm thinking theres a huge amount of text in the users documentation folders, and it probably dwarfs what many users have in their homes. But just a thought.
The reason why documentation is filtered out is because system-wide documentation is a very large pool of information and fairly specialized. You generally don't want it mixed in with your other document results. In our user testing we found that it was overwhelming for most people. GNOME's Yelp can be compiled with Beagle support, and its search will display documentation results. I would consider a patch that created a new Documentation category grouping and a documentation tile which showed results from the documentation index. Otherwise, this is a WONTFIX.
If this is a WONTFIX I will disable indexing documentation from Debian packages, as it has no sense to have a task if you cannot use it. I think that a Documentation category worth it. Even you could add it as an option to be searched or not.
Why not build yelp with beagle support?
I think what you might really want is along these lines http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310411 A way to control which static backends are queried when. Since alot of the time I have no interest in the sendmail docs, but if i cant search them why did I index them? Alright, so, If you want to, catch me around on the irc (kkubasik) or just drop me an e-mail and we cna coordinate on this.
IIRC this was specifically disabled for SLED since we didn't want documentation to be searched from beagle-search, but a different tool was to be used instead. I think it was Yelp in this case, which already has Beagle support.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 503629 ***