Strigi

Strigi
Developer(s) Jos van den Oever
Flavio Castelli
Last release
0.7.8[1] / February 5, 2013 (2013-02-05)
Development status Discontinued[2]
Written in C++
Operating system Linux
Type Search tool
License LGPL
Website sourceforge.net/projects/strigi
This article is about the computer software Strigi. For the order of Strigiformes birds, see Owl.

Strigi was a file indexing and file search framework (see desktop search) adopted by KDE SC. Strigi was initiated by Jos van den Oever. Strigi's goals are to be fast, use a small amount of RAM, and use flexible backends and plug-ins.[3] A benchmark as of January 2007 showed that Strigi is faster and uses less memory than other search systems,[4] but it lacks many of their features. Like most desktop search systems, Strigi can extract information from files, such as the length of an audio clip, the contents of a document, or the resolution of a picture; plugins determine what filetypes it is capable of handling.[5] Strigi uses its own Jstream system which allows for deep indexing of files. Strigi is accessible via Konqueror, or by clicking on its icon, after adding it to KDE's Kicker or GNOME Panel. (In GNOME desktop, it is called the Deskbar applet.) The graphical user interface (GUI) is named Strigiclient.[5]

Features

Operating systems and desktops

Strigi used to be a core component of the KDE Software Compilation's semantic desktop. Strigi and NEPOMUK used to work together to help create a semantic desktop search. NEPOMUK allows the user to add metadata, which Strigi would index for a more precise search. It has since been replaced with a home-grown solution, the nepomuk-metadata-extractor.[8]

GNOME has an optional applet to search for files using Strigi, named Deskbar.[9] Deskbar is included in the GNOME desktop of Ubuntu 8.10, for example.

See also

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ "Strigi | Free System Administration software downloads at". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  3. 1 2 Archived December 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. 1 2 "Official: Strigi fastest and smallest | blogs.kde.org". Kdedevelopers.org. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  5. 1 2 "Index and search with KDE's new Strigi". Linux.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ "Strigi Reloaded - The Answer to all our Problems? Hopefully to a few of them. | blogs.kde.org". Kdedevelopers.org. 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  8. ↑ "[Nepomuk] [RFC] New File Indexer". Mail.kde.org. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  9. ↑ "Debian - Details of package deskbar-plugins-strigi in sid". Packages.debian.org. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
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