Beagle should install an autostart file so that beagled is started automatically on login. This feature will work with Gnome > 2.14. As Gnome 2.14 is already available (masked) it would make sense to already ship this autostart file now for the users running (masked) 2.14 packages. It won't have ill effects for users still running Gnome 2.12
I'm pretty sure this won't work with beagle - on logout, GNOME doesn't wait for beagle to exit, so it leaves dangling lock files, meaning that beagle will often delete most of its indexes next time it is started up. We do need a good way of autostarting beagle though. Currently I use an xsession hack.
I think Joe is tackling this: http://joeshaw.org/2006/04/12/394
Why not create a system startup script ?
ic, because you can't run beagle as root, what about creating a beagle user ?
Beagle is designed to be run as a per-user thing.
In beagle-0.2.14 there are improvements on this area: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/beagle/NEWS
yes the upstream added two autostart files mainly beacause Joe got tired to patch the suse rpms. 0.1.14 has the autostart files so it should work and closes this bug. Thanks everyone.
