Allright, thanks for the pointer! I really like this codesnippet in Evolution.cs:
" foreach (string shit in crap) folder_path = folder_path.Replace (shit, ""); " :=) On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Joe Shaw <j...@joeshaw.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Joel Mandell <joelmand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Would love to eventually fix the Evolution filter in Util/Evolution.cs. I > > can send patches to dbera right? > > You can send patches to the list. I think I wrote the Evolution stuff > back in the day, so I might be able to remember some of the details. > :) > > At this point there's nobody really maintaining it, and the current > Evo stuff is old and broken so as long as you've tested it and feel > good about the code, go ahead and push it AFAIAC. > > Thanks, > Joe > > > > > peace! > > -joel m aka dikatlon > > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Lukas Lipka <lukasli...@gmail.com> > 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 <j...@joeshaw.org> wrote: > >> > Hi Adam, > >> > > >> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams > >> > <awill...@whitemice.org> 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 few of them (heap-buddy, which has only recently been superseded by a 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 > >> > dashboard-hackers@gnome.org > >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dashboard-hackers mailing list > >> dashboard-hackers@gnome.org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > > > > > > > > -- > > Web: > > http://www.openzource.org > > > > Cellphone: > > 0722-137374 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dashboard-hackers mailing list > > dashboard-hackers@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > > > > > -- *Web: * http://www.openzource.org *Cellphone: * 0722-137374
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