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Beagle Newsletter - April 2006

Bag of Software
Bag of Software


With the release of GNOME 2.14, three new additions to the desktop environment have come with the ability to search your Beagle index. First, Nautilus now allows users to create new searches within the file browser and save searches based on that query. If enabled, Nautilus will use Beagle for this searching. Second, a new panel applet has been included for quick searching. The panel applet, Deskbar, allows you to query Google, Yahoo! and a number of other websites in real time. If the Beagle plug-in is enabled, your files can be quickly searched using this handy tool. Finally, Yelp, the GNOME help tool can utilize Beagle for quick searching of the systems help documentation.

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It's slightly broken

The gnome-session-properties dialog is broken a bit and it isn't capable of deleting/disabling system-global autostart entries (those in /etc/xdg/autostart or such). There was a bug entry about it on Launchpad and probably Gnome Bugzilla