Re: Dashboard (was Nautilus Sidebar)

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 13:17 +0100, Glenn J. Mason wrote:

> Yeah, what happened to Dashboard?  The last update on the weblog is
> the end of 2003.  I love the idea of "persistent real time information
> display", like Beagle search but fed a stream of cluepackets.  

I actually just gave a talk about this yesterday at GUADEC. :)

Dashboard was somewhat set aside while we developed Beagle.  Dashboard
is being revived as a Summer of Code project, though.  Unfortunately
there's not really any code to show yet.

> Was it just too much overhead on the system or something? 
> 
It may be at some point, but we just didn't have enough applications
instrumented at the time for this to be an issue.

Joe