Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-11-21 Thread David Aveiro
Hello! First of all congratulations for this fantastic app!! It has been very very very useful to (disorganized) me :) I'm using Freemind (see http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) to keep most of my task list and organize several important info and projects. So it would be v

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-02 Thread David Aveiro
Hello, could someone at least say something like. No it's not possible, or yes it is considered for version X.Y in 3 months from now? :P Or am I in the wrong mailing list? Best regards, David Seg, 2005-11-21 às 22:07 +, David Aveiro escreveu: > Hello! > > First of all congratulations for t

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
David Aveiro wrote: I'm using Freemind (see http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) to keep most of my task list and organize several important info and projects. So it would be very useful that Beagle could index files with mm extension (XML content), which is Freemind Maps fi

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-02 Thread David Aveiro
Hello, Sex, 2005-12-02 às 19:56 +, Daniel Drake escreveu: > David Aveiro wrote:> > > So it would be very useful that Beagle could index files with mm > > extension (XML content), which is Freemind Maps file extension. > > You should write a filter for those files. Mono includes extensive XML

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
David Aveiro wrote: The main subject of my initial message is that it would be useful to specify in a Beagle configuration file or something, a parameter that could be a list of file extensions to be considered as plain text and indexed by Beagle. This because I assume lots of people and lots of

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-03 Thread David Aveiro
Sáb, 2005-12-03 às 00:04 +, Daniel Drake escreveu: > Beagle indexes files of mimetype text/plain so the common case is covered, > regardless of filename scheme. XML is different to plain text though, and > there is no generic XML filter. Presumably the map files have an xml mimetype. these

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Drake
David Aveiro wrote: these files start like this: So because of the starting < Beagle does not index this? Or as beagle doesn't recognize mm extension it doesn't even analyse the contents of this file? Beagle generally doesn't look at the file contents directly before deciding whether to

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Trick wrote: Is there a reason why it doesn't (look at the file)? Yes, for the simple reason that beagle asks gnomevfs to tell us what kind of file we're dealing with, and we don't care how it does it. That may make some sense in a windows environment, but I have a lot of files on the

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-05 Thread Robin Haswell
al Message- From: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle? Date: Mon 5 Dec 2005 13:44 Size: 751 bytes To: Alan Trick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: "dashboard-hackers@gnome.org" Alan Trick wrote: > Is there a reason why

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Robin Haswell wrote: I fully agree with Daniel on this point, as a programmer I know in this situation that we should index a file properly or not at all. However, i do make some points: 1. Even if a file is not recognised can we still index its filename and open it with the registered applicati

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-05 Thread Kevin Kubasik
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:54:00 , Robin Haswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fully agree with Daniel on this point, as a programmer I know in this > situation that we should index a file properly or not at all. However, i do > make some points: > > 1. Even if a file is not recognised can we sti

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Robin Haswell wrote: Wouldn't I need to know how to do it first? :-) Seriously, I might do if you could point me at some good examples. I don't know any languages inside out apart from PHP and its interweb buddies, but I'm sure I could pick up Python or some other newbie language pretty quick

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-05 Thread Debajyoti Bera
On Monday 05 December 2005 16:54, Robin Haswell wrote: > I fully agree with Daniel on this point, as a programmer I know in this > situation that we should index a file properly or not at all. However, i do > make some points: > > 1. Even if a file is not recognised can we still index its filename

Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

2005-12-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Robin Haswell wrote: Okay cheers, I'll look in to it when I get a moment. As a quickie, wouldn't it make sense to allow filters to be written by any language supported by mono? Yes, and this is already the case, but any filters written should ideally be written in C# so that we can ship them