TRS component Re: IM log browser mockup, call for hackers?

[Srikant Jakilinki <sriks dcs gla ac uk>]

Great Lukas and Tuomas. The way I see this time re-sorter thing (TRS) 
working is that it could be a nice simple i/o system (see attachment). 
And very generic and re-usable. So, it sh/w/could be independent :-)

What it should ideally do is take a list of timestamped entities (could 
be conversations, emails, browser history, results of Beagle, bookmarks 
first/last visited) and then group them together with XML tags that any 
front-end app (like Best) could then use for whatever reasons (like 
display).
As per the figure, the TRS component could have sub-components (like 
different languages) and different sorting mechanisms for different i/o 
processing and desires. For example, this component should be able to 
understand logs of other IM's too. Extract timestamps vis-a-vis a 
conversation and put them in a list so that the sorter could take over.

When I saw Nat's presentation on Dashboard quite sometime ago, I thought 
these were the kind of things that were planned i.e. application 
independence and a re-usabele streaming architecture. I hope I am not 
wrong. Anyway, if anyone else is interested in this component or knows 
more about such things or even have implmented such a thing (Mozilla 
history sidebar does an OK job), please get back to us. It could save us 
a lot of time!

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Lukas Lipka wrote:
> Ive worked on a IM log viewer for Beagle a while back. It never got in 
> because it used Gtk Html and we switched to gecko. I would be able to 
> write the one tigert has mocked up if I get time (hopefully soon). But I 
> have a dilema whethever it should be a part of Beagle or a standalone 
> app so anynone (like Gaim) could use it. Anyone wit some useful ideas?
>
> Best,
>
> Lukas
>
> Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I recently designed a mockup for a IM log browser that would in my
> > opinion be better than the one in GAIM currently. The improvements
> > mainly are in the way the list of im logs are displayed, so that they
> > are grouped per date in a sensible way.
> >
> > More information and the mockups can be seen here:
> > http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/29/date-revisited-new-thoughts/ 
> >
> > If someone wants a small hacking project, this might be a good one to
> > start with. I am happy to provide assistance with the user interface
> > etc..
> >
> > The idea is, that when you click an IM log in Best, it would open this
> > log browser with the actual log selected, and the search term in the
> > search field, and the rest of the matching logs grouped by timeline in
> > the list.
> >
> > Anyway, interested? Let me know! :-)
> >
> > Tuomas