Hi, I've been playing around with beagle for some time and seeing it on the SoC page i thought about proposing a project. I've been thinking about different ideas and wanted to ask what people working on beagle generally think about them before proposing something going into a totally different direction than where you are heading.
One idea has been including some of the information about packages available in package managers like apt into beagle. This would probably be a query backend interfacing to things like apt-cache search. This idea mainly came up because packages are one of the frequent things i'm searching for. What do you think? Are there any plans to do that / has it been done? Are there reasons not to do it? In the long term perspective there is also tons of meta data available in apt and dpkg - especially telling you what package a certain file belongs to and so on. This might be very interesting if one wants to develope a system of contextual navigation like proposed by the tenor project (http://dot.kde.org/1113428593/) I imagine looking at a files metadata seeing the package it belongs to, clicking that package, seeing dependencies, clicking a package that depends on the first one and clicking the man-file that came with it. This idea is still quite far away i think. But it also came to my mind when trying out leaftag. With leaftag it would already quite easy to implement a gui browsing through your tags and files. Clicking a file shows its tags, clicking a tag shows the files tagged with this tag. But tagging by hand is quite time consuming and still does not offer enough metadata. It also differentiates between uri's and tags where i would like an more rdf-like approach showing relations between different uri's. So i thought about extending leaftag but it looks like beagle already has quite a good support for metadata. So maybe enabling browsing and refining of searches with metadata in beagle might be a way to go. I think this might be a step to a different way of browsing data. Is this something you could imagine to happen in beagle or do you rather want to focus on doing search right and leave browsing etc. to projects like tenor? Thanks for your comments - and for writing beagle of course. ;-) Max _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers