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 few of them (heap-buddy, which has only recently been superseded by a 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
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