Webinterface for beagle search (and more...)

[Debajyoti Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

Hi "Searcher"s,
	Some of you are aware that a web interface for beagle is being worked on. I 
blogged about it in planetbeagle sometime back. After that, a "fearless" 
Nirbheek Chauhan continued hacking on it and managed to change

http://bp0.blogger.com/_Dl_EHp-s13Q/RuSVUVFtUNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SShdc8dzfTs/s1600-h/beagle-web-interface.jpg.png

to

http://cs-people.bu.edu/dbera/blogdata/beagle_webui-1.png

I believe its now at a stage that some feedback would be good. 99.9% of it is 
javascript+xslt, so I(we) am mostly looking forward to UI issues. Its getting 
more makeup and functionality as I write this email. For the known 
things_to_do, check
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/beagle/trunk/beagle/beagled/webinterface/TODO?view=markup

To get it running, you need the svn trunk. Get it, build it. Then (*) cd to 
beagle/beagled and start beagled as "./beagled ...". Yes, beagled needs to be 
started from beagle/beagled directory. Point your browser (oops... Firefox 
browser) to http://127.0.0.1:4000/ (**) and enjoy your stay.

Please, some feedback is necessary. At least say you hate e.g. the stupid way 
the "last modified" is shown.

- dBera

(*) The need to start beagled from beagled directory is a temporary one.
(**) For security minded people out there, the server actually opens port 4000 
to all! So any machine would be able to search (this is again temporary and 
would be configurable in near future). If you dont like to have the open port
during testing, replace in beagled/Server.cs: 
http://*:{0}/
by
http://127.0.0.1:{0}/

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Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com
beagle / KDE fan
Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user