Well, parentheses around word prefixes in the subject are just ornaments. First, let me excuse myself if this list is the wrong venue to spread this message.
What the hell is R talking about? --------------------------------------- Search services! Our mission: to build and provide the world with free software tools that enrich and facilitate the computing experience. Our vision: a world where search is always available, fast and reliable - and not wanting to rely on it is unthinkable. What is this Search services thingie he just said? -------------------------------------------------------- I got tired, *truly* tired, of resorting to tons of tools to find what I want on my computer. See, like many here, I own about 160GB of data, scattered all around in my hard disks (let's leave removable storage out of the sentence) and I just can't find things when I need them. Let's recap: - find and grep -r for odds and ends - htdig (heavily customized) for developer documentation and manual pages (I haven't counted how many) - Rhythmbox and amaroK for music (about 13000 songs) - Evolution for e-mail (since 1995, about 1GB of maildirs) I hate it with my guts. And I've started a journey to make this madness stop. How? --------- Pour 2 liters of Python in a bowl. Stir (gently) with gnome-vfs and assorted OSS desktop technologies. Add MySQL to your taste. Serve decorated with pygtk. I've built a preliminary Frankenstein monster, which is usable and (I think) now worthy of public testing. Search services is the umbrella project for: - The metadata service: A multipurpose, extensible indexer and search service. - Quick search: A simple, graphical search tool. - python-inotify: An abstraction to the Linux inotify file notification system. - python-UnixSocketTransport: An extension for the Python xmlrpclib XML-RPC client library - python-mytools: A collection of tools to run a private MySQL database, catalog Python objects and perform blazingly fast queries on the catalog. Where do I get this stuff? -------------------------------- http://www.amautacorp.com/staff/Rudd-O/projects/search-services/ I have questions? ---------------------- Yes, U sure do. No, no, that's actually the name of the song I'm listening to. I'm rambling again, sorry. Direct any inquiries to me, or to me *and* the list if you feel it's worthy of public discussion. I just request that you include my e-mail address in the recipient/CC list so my Evo filters catch and flag those e-mails. Rudd-O _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
