Re: Is beagle completely dead now?
Joel Mandell <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:45:07 +0100
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--===============0774941661== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=90e6ba53ae8a1701f1049c44f68f --90e6ba53ae8a1701f1049c44f68f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I have always been following this project, and it meant so much for me cause my desktop usually are a mess organization-wise. BTW Wasn't it you lukas that made the "Holmes"-gui? Would love to eventually fix the Evolution filter in Util/Evolution.cs. I can send patches to dbera right? peace! -joel m aka dikatlon On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Lukas Lipka <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't mean to sound nostalgic, but back then Beagle was one of the > best and fun projects to hack on! > > L. > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Joe Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> A major reason why I gave up on Beagle and > >>> the whole Linux desktop itself was due to this attitude. I guess the > >>> developers of those apps are more thick skinned or resilient than I > >>> was? I don't know. > >> > >> Time is also probably a factor, Beagle was AFAIK really the first > >> desktop Mono application of any note. It was also ahead of its time as > >> a concept [I recall no shortage of long rambling posts about how it was > >> useless anyway]. > > > > Indeed. Writing a Mono application at the time was a... challenge. > > Beagle surely had its own set of performance problems, and the tools > > to profile and debug them were largely non-existent. We even wrote a > > few of them (heap-buddy, which has only recently been superseded by a > > new built-in profiler). I would have killed for a working debugger. > > :) > > > > When Beagle was started, the concept was actually pretty clear to us. > > We weren't looking to create a Spotlight for Linux (indeed, Beagle was > > first publicly demoed on the day Apple announced Spotlight) -- it was > > really designed as a means to an end: Dashboard needed an index to > > make intelligent queries against and get contextual clues. Beagle > > really grew out of that need, and became a user-centric tool. > > > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > > dashboard-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > > > _______________________________________________ > dashboard-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > -- *Web: * http://www.openzource.org *Cellphone: * 0722-137374 --90e6ba53ae8a1701f1049c44f68f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have always been following this project, and it meant so much for me caus= e my desktop usually are a mess organization-wise.<br><br>BTW Wasn't it= you lukas that made the "Holmes"-gui?<br><br>Would love to event= ually fix the Evolution filter in Util/Evolution.cs. I can send patches to = dbera right?<br> <br>peace!<br>-joel m aka dikatlon<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon= , Feb 14, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Lukas Lipka <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mai= lto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br><bl= ockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-l= eft: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I don't mean to sound nostalgic, but back then Beagle was one of the<br= > best and fun projects to hack on!<br> <font color=3D"#888888"><br> L.<br> </font><div><div></div><div class=3D"h5"><br> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Joe Shaw <<a href=3D"mailto:joe@joeshaw= .org">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br> > Hi Adam,<br> ><br> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams<br> > <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</= a>> wrote:<br> >>> A major reason why I gave up on Beagle and<br> >>> the whole Linux desktop itself was due to this attitude. =A0I = guess the<br> >>> developers of those apps are more thick skinned or resilient t= han I<br> >>> was? =A0I don't know.<br> >><br> >> Time is also probably a factor, Beagle was AFAIK really the first<= br> >> desktop Mono application of any note. =A0It was also ahead of its = time as<br> >> a concept [I recall no shortage of long rambling posts about how i= t was<br> >> useless anyway].<br> ><br> > Indeed. =A0Writing a Mono application at the time was a... challenge.<= br> > Beagle surely had its own set of performance problems, and the tools<b= r> > to profile and debug them were largely non-existent. =A0We even wrote = a<br> > few of them (heap-buddy, which has only recently been superseded by a<= br> > new built-in profiler). =A0I would have killed for a working debugger.= <br> > :)<br> ><br> > When Beagle was started, the concept was actually pretty clear to us.<= br> > We weren't looking to create a Spotlight for Linux (indeed, Beagle= was<br> > first publicly demoed on the day Apple announced Spotlight) -- it was<= br> > really designed as a means to an end: Dashboard needed an index to<br> > make intelligent queries against and get contextual clues. =A0Beagle<b= r> > really grew out of that need, and became a user-centric tool.<br> ><br> > Joe<br> > _______________________________________________<br> > dashboard-hackers mailing list<br> > <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">dashboard-hackers@gnome= .org</a><br> > <a href=3D"http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers" t= arget=3D"_blank">http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers</= a><br> ><br> _______________________________________________<br> dashboard-hackers mailing list<br> <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]<= /a><br> <a href=3D"http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers" target= =3D"_blank">http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers</a><br= > </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br><u>Web: </u= ><br><a href=3D"http://www.openzource.org" target=3D"_blank">http://www.ope= nzource.org</a><br><br><u>Cellphone: </u><br>0722-137374<br><br> --90e6ba53ae8a1701f1049c44f68f-- --===============0774941661== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers --===============0774941661==--