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Kerry is a KDE front-end for the Beagle search tool, which indexes your personal information space to help you find whatever you need. You can use Kerry to find documents, e-mails, Web history, IM/ITC conversations, source code, images, music files, applications, and much more.
Because Kerry is a front-end to Beagle, it needs the beagle daemon to be functional. Kerry and Beagle can now index many KDE-specific sources of information, such as Kopete conversations, Konqueror history, or KMail messages. The result is a smooth integration into the KDE environment through the Kerry interface. Find more about Beagle in GNOME User Guide.
To find data using the Kerry tool, follow these steps:
Press Alt-Space to open the Kerry Beagle Search window. Alternatively, open the search window by left-clicking on the Kerry applet icon (a dog's head) in the system tray.
Enter the term to find in . To quickly clear the previously entered text, press the black arrow on the left.
The search is case insensitive. It does not matter whether you use
uppercase or lowercase characters. To search for optional terms, use
the OR keyword (in uppercase). For example,
Mars OR Venus finds all data containing any
occurrence of Mars, Venus, or both. To exclude search terms, use a
minus symbol (–) in front of them. For example,
Mars -Venus finds all data containing any
occurrence of Mars but without any occurrence of Venus. To search
for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes. If you want to
include only certain file type in results, specify file name
extension with ext:. For example,
Mars ext:xml finds xml files containing
Mars.
Select the scope of the search in the panel on the right. To search all the indexed content, choose . However, you can limit the search only to indexed applications, contacts, office documents, instant messenger conversations, image files, media files, or Web pages by clicking on an appropriate item in the panel. You can change the scope before or after the search is performed.
You can also change the sort order of results in the right panel. To sort results by type, click on . Sorting by date, name and relevance is also available. You can change the sort order before or after the search is completed.
The search results can be also limited by date of last modification. To show all results regardless of date of the last modification, click on in the right panel. You can show items modified today, since yesterday, this week, month, or year by clicking on the appropriate item in the right panel. This can be changed before or after the search is performed.
Press Enter or click to start the search. Results are displayed in the main area of the window.
Results are displayed in a window, sorted according to your settings. Click any item to activate it. To open a folder containing a found file instead of the file itself, click .
You can change the scope of the search, sort order, or limitation by date at any time by clicking appropriate item in the panel on the right.
Use and to move between pages of the result list. The number of items found is shown in the bottom part of the window.
