I was most disappointed to find out that contrary to what the beagle FAQ says, none of my Thunderbird emails were indexed.

Documentations is very lacking – there should be more information about what is getting indexed how, which filetypes, compression methods, etc, whether symbolic links are followed, whether documents and files without extensions are still recognized and how etc.

This is a black box that may or may not do what you want and there is no GUI to figure out what it did. This is bad since when you get zero matches you never know whether there are really zero matches or Beagle just missed them.

This step should not be necessary on Ubuntu Edgy. A .desktop autostart file should have been installed that has already added beagled to your startup programs. This will take effect on the next login.

Thanks for the great tutorial for getting Beagle up and running on Ubuntu. Now we just need to get it set up and running by default in Feisty!

Anyway, Beagle is maybe a good idea, but a big mistake on how it was written…
Wenn I work on my Laptop it stops indexing so I have more userspace. That’s good.
But on Idle mode, it starts Indexing and the CPU starts heating like a radiator. That’s not so good because it uses all userspace.

Since a month I banned Beagle, and wating for tracker now.