Developers of KDE (www.kde.org) have announced plans to simplify searching for files on the open-source Linux desktop environment by adding a Google-style search feature to the next version of KDE, which will either be called 3.4 or 4.
Aaron Seigo (www.kde.nl/people/aaron.html), a KDE developer, said that the community has already been discussing and writing code for the new search engine at the KDE Community World Summit (http://conference2004.kde.org), taking place from August 21 to August 29, 2004, in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
The search engine will be included on the control panel and will build on KDE's current search functionality. Seigo said that they are planning a Google-like search system for the control panel, although people will still be able to search for files by name, and pointed out that currently, it is much easier to find files on the Web than on a computer.
