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Searching with Kerry
Kerry is a KDE front-end for the Beagle search tool, which indexes your personal in-
formation space to help you find whatever you need. You can use Kerry to find docu-
ments, 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.
11.1 Searching Using Kerry
To find data using the Kerry tool, follow these steps:
1 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.
2 Enter the term to find in Search. 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 up-
percase). For example, Mars OR Venus finds all data containing any occurrence
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