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Fender recently won a case in a german court, from which they assumed to own the copyright to the famous Stratocaster guitar shape. They then sent out cease and desist letters to m…

What's the problem with GNOME's approach to file system dialogs? I really like their portals approach. On GNOME you get a Nautilus based picker, on KDE a GNOME app gives you the KD…

> Those are two different claims, and the latter is obviously possible if the application performs queries by querying a daemon that is always running with an in-memory index. But …

> I wasn't planning to; it's a once-off cost - the user experience while using any software isn't degraded by the installation time, is it? This whole topic started with you claimi…

> And yes, it can be done purely by monitoring filesystem changes. Sure, a full index needs to be built the first time, but that's a one-off cost And how do you build the full inde…

> I wasn't intending to include transient filesystems in the index. There's absolutely no difference between transient and persistent filesystems in regards to that problem. Every …

> Basically, how fast can we update the index? The two core issues are: 1) How do you quickly get a list of all files and their attributes from the filesystem, without recursively …

> I hope that I didn't come off as dismissive of your hard work or of being disrespectful of what you have delivered. Not at all, I'm just incredibly curious of how you'd solve the…

> Not a problem. And no, I'm not talking about inotify either, and I'll additionally index the contents of (text) files as well with a negligible additional performance hit. It can…

You mean like being able to read the plocate database with FSearch? I don't see much point in that, because the plocate database is missing some crucial data, which FSearch uses to…

Recoll serves a different purpose as it's primarily build to index and search within your personal documents. That's why it doesn't work well when you point it to the root folder, …

> Does it support find in files? No, not yet.

Maybe, but I'm not sure if there's much benefit to that. The most inefficient part of the inotify or fanotify solution is that you have to walk the file system before monitoring ca…

I'm not familiar with the internals of plocate, but I'll have a brief look at it.

Yes, it's simply using stat on every file/folder. There's probably some room of improvement there with clever parallelization, but it'll remain a bottleneck. Everything is parsing …

Most definitely code and documentation contributions and to a degree donations — although I clearly prefer the former, simply because it keeps me engaged the most by talking with o…

Hi, author here. Likely the most significant benefit is the more powerful query language. For example you can also search by file modification date or size and use boolean operator…

Author here. The app works in two steps: Step one is building an index of the file system. This is simply done by walking the filesystem. The resulting index is stored in RAM and a…

Hi, I'm the author of this little piece of software. > Also this is anbandoned apparently, which makes me extra sad, because it lacks few crucial features like: PersonalIy I wouldn…

Nowadays there are several "knock-offs" on the market with higher quality and at a cheaper price.

Because this means the game runs even worse on pretty much every PC out there, since the majority of gamers don't use the most powerful GPU on the market. And it's not like this ga…

There's obviously a big difference between your own kid and some other kid. When my own kids do something terrible, I'm obviously going to reflect on whether I did something wrong …

If you'd be running Qalculate on a Linux desktop system, where all the "heavy" dependencies (ICU, GTK or Qt) are already present and shared between all applications, Qalculate woul…

> It's also slow to start. It's launching instantly here, with cold caches.