I really like the Unity interface. The usability, the look and especially the search. But the search got less and less responsive. In 14.04 I have to wait quiet some time before results appear (semi recent Core i5 with 8GB RAM) - btw: online results are already disabled and videos and music are disabled in the indexing settings.
I have a huge music and a large photo collection which needs no indexing and don't have to apear in the search results, neither does my (not that large) video collection. The only thing I'm interested in is that my installed programs and my other documents are indexed and searched.
Any hints on how to speed it up and remove the unnecessary stuff?
Are there good alternatives? I would love to keep the starter and also the search design, but maybe some other program / adon can be hooked in to use it.