Looking the change log of PR 1.2 it looks like nothing really new is coming to core apps like email and calendar.

Does anyone know if any work is being done either by Nokia or the community to provide search capability for calendar and email.

Missing search cripples both apps badly.

Is forthcoming Meego providing any solution to this (assuming Meego comes available to N900)?

Bump..no answers..

Is the search capability generally considered as a useless feature?

Feel free to vote for http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...endar_in_n900/ solution 30 and feel free to vote for https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5502 .

@oneFinn: No, you're right. Search is absolutely critical. Email/calendar without search is like the early operating systems that had no hierarchical file systems. You just can't use them for real world situations.

Of course, for new emails only, and small calendars both apps work OK.

No, I don't think people here consider search as a useless feature. On the other hand, there are other calendar features I considered important that aren't there. So, I guess people focus on that first? For me, the first thing I wanted to add to my calendar was a reminder to take out the trash. Simple repetitive tasks. Every/every second/every fourth tuesday. Calendar fails me.

Search, I don't expect see that coming although it might. But I do think some of the other calendar suggestions in said links can be expected to be implemented in Maemo 5.

I have higher expectations to finding something in the repositories. There are alternative calendars and planners there already, me seems to know.

I think this might be one area where the community can actually do something about it. I thought the email client was open source, including the UI. Maybe I'll take a peek at it today; I've been looking for a database app to sink my teeth into.

Yes, the email client is open-source. The calendar UI isn't, although the data storage format may be documented.

That's what I thought.

I've installed an sqlite tool in Firefox (on my mac) and looked through most of the n900 databases. Whoa, this is actually a great idea, 'cause all the data is mime typed. A global search, like on iPhone OS devices, could present the user with a list that would then launch the appropriate app when selected. Holy shiit!

i think the backend is just a sqlite database?, if so, someone from the community could probably make a calendar/task/note search, it wouldn't be integrated into the calendar UI, but it would be a start.

Yeah I was thinking it would be possible to build a 3rd-party app to search the sqlite databases. That combined with a find/grep tool could make it possible to build a PalmOS-like system-wide search tool.