Beagle Newsletter -- 2nd Edition

[Joe Gasiorek <joe gasiorek gmail com>]

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
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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
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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

    http://primates.ximian.com/~trow/best-blogs.png

    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

    http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/gasiorek/beagle-launcher-ss.png

    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
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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
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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"
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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