Hi everyone, I've been lurking on this list for while. I would like to present the following project as possible collaboration between the Abiword, Beagle and Dashboard projects for Google's Summer Of Code.
About 1.5 years ago I wrote the AbiDash plugin for Abiword which sends clues and notifications to the dashboard program. As far as I can tell the clue packets get transmitted correctly but unfortunately Dashboard fell into a state of bitrot so I never got the chance to see how well it worked. Julian Satchel picked up the plugin and did something with a competing backend to beagle. Unfortunately that work was all commercial-in-confidence so I never saw if that worked either. My vision was that if a user is employing AbiWord to write an essay on say, Shakespear's Midsummer Night, the dashboard program would search through the users documents looking for both relevent documents and relevent parts of the documents to what is being typed and present the user with useful information without the user having to do any explicit searchs. So I imagined relevent parts of the "Midsummer's Night's dream" or relevent commentries from other sources appearing in dashboard as the user wrote their essay. Or if I'm writin a technical paper I get references to previous work in dashboard and along with useful facts from source documents as I type in AbiWord. So I'm very happy to help on the AbiWord side. As I said, the plugin to send notifications from Abiword to dashboard has been written. No doubt it will need a lot of tweaking and fixing. Is there interest in Beagle/Dashboard community to help Mentor on the Dashboard side? I've also proposed this project as our first choice in Abiword's SoC application to Google. Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers