I'm running Beagle 0.0.10 with mono 1.1.6 on Debian unstable. After some playing around, here are some things that occurred to me (a non-technical user); some are obvious, some are goofy, take it as you will.
1. need a way to remove a indexed item (scrubbing of the caches and the binary databases) perhaps through a trashbin icon alongside your open, send, show in file browser icons for each hit 2. allow for clearing of search terms in Best in the drop down box / notification applet 3. Best is a cool interface for interacting with data on the pc; so is f-spot which allows for meta-tags to be added to files to allow one to display only those tagged files with a single click; could do something similar in Best with "permanent searches" where search criteria replace tags... -- ie. a bar along the left with saved searches kept up to date by Beagle -- or a bookmarks-style pull down (but can rearrange or alphabetize or date-sort the searches) 4. add control of the beagled within Best / Best's notification area icon to allow for: start daemon, stop daemon, restart daemon, etc. Or perhaps leave the daemon running but allow for start/stop of indexing so can still search but can stop indexing if on a laptop away from AC power. 5. allow for sorting of Best results: - by date (straight by date or broken up something like Thunderbird's views of "Today" "Yesterday" "Last Week" etc.) (the f-spot histogram indicator for number of files existing over a calendar period is really cool, too.. it allows you to slide along the calendar and see the files with timestamps for that month... would be cool for looking at hits) - by number of hits within the item (I have no clue what your default algorithm is) - by colour coding by number of hits (red, orange, blue for degrees of heat/relevance) 6. Some indicator showing search in progress... because the number of hits may read 1 of 1 then jump to 1 to 5 of 100 in a few seconds. Slower computers or larger databases would benefit. You guys are doing cool work and Beagle & Best work very well! Hope you're having fun working on it. Something that would be cool on the Wiki is a brief discussion on how beagled does its job. Watching it with beagled --fg raises a lot of questions. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
