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Beagle Newsletter Issue 2 - 11 October 2004
Welcome to another edition of the Beagle Newsletter. If your new to the project you can read up about it the projects website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle
Beagle Roadmap
Nat Friedman has written up a roadmap that covers the next several stages of Beagle development. Check it out:
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2004-October/msg00047.html
Hacking
inotify
Thanks to the work of Robert Love, Beagle is now using the inotify kernel patch to instantly update the index with every file system change. At this time, an inotify-enabled kernel is required to use Beagle.
Instructions for setting up inotify can be found on the Beagle wiki:
http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/gasiorek/wiki/index.php/Installing%20Beagle
Beagle Daemon
The transition to a client/server setup is nearing completion. Best and the beagle-query command line tool both interact with Beagle correctly over d-bus. Big thanks to Jon and Dave for making this transition successful.
Evolution Mail Indexing
This week, Joe Shaw wrote a Camel-based query driver that allows Beagle to aggregate Evolution mail search results into Beagle searches. This includes working live queries. IMAP mail searching isn't yet fully supported.
Blog Indexing
Thanks to Fredrik Hedberg and Jon Trowbridge, Beagle now indexes cached Blam! log entries. Jon Trowbridge also checked in a really cool hack for the blog tiles that uses the blog's hackergotchi as the tile icon.
Tomboy Note Tiles
Thanks to Jon's DBus remote control interface to Tomboy, clicking on a note tile opens the note in Tomboy, with all search terms highlighted.
Application Launcher Searching
Joe Gasiorek implemented searching of .desktop files, meaning that your application launchers get searched along with your other data. This is neat, launchbar-like functionality in Beagle.
Project
Wiki
The Beagle wiki now has a domain! Go to http://www.beaglewiki.org for the latest instructions on how to set up, use and hack Beagle.
Press
Beagle has enjoyed its share of press lately. From articles motioned on OSNews to the presentation given by Jon Trowbridge at the recent Gnome Summit it appears that information about Beagle is spreading fast. Planet Beagle
The blogs of some of the developers have been syndicated at http://www.planetbeagle.org for your viewing pleasure. Thanks go to Robert for the webspace.
Art
Beagle now has a Logo, thanks to Larry Ewing and Garrett Lesage.
http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2004/10/09/the-beagle-logo/
Screenshots Collection
We are now collecting Beagle screenshots on the wiki. If you have an interesting screenshot of Beagle in action, please feel free to include it:
http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/gasiorek/wiki/index.php/BeagleScreenshots
Snapshot Packages
Up-to-date snapshots of the Beagle prerequisites can be found on the nat.org open carpet server for SUSE users.
What to Expect in upcoming releases
Stability
Now that Beagle is able to do many things well an effort will be put into make it so you can have beagled running all the time.
More Filters
Including the infamous MS Office Filters.
Behind the /nick -- "joe"
Joe Shaw (joe) is dark master of the Stata center Star Chamber. Read up about him at his website: http://joeshaw.org/
As always if you have any input to how the next Beagle Newsletter should be distributed or what should go in it please email Joe Gasiorek at joe.gasiorek@gmail.com
