Haha, that one was not me. :) Joe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Joel Mandell <joelmand...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 few of them (heap-buddy, which has only recently been superseded by a 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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