I also think that it is a pity that this great piece of software is going to die. Beagle has a great clean architecture, that makes it easy to understand, extend and improve. It provides a great indexing and search framework that addresses all issues that you are faced when you want to build your own desktop search engine: indexers, filters, scheduler, monitoring consumed resources, and so on.
I like the idea to ask Novel and Ubuntu if they are interested in further maintaining Beagle. I am using Beagle on my Ubuntu system. Unfortunately, it is not installed and running by default. Ubuntu seems to count on a system called Tracker (wasn't there something in Beagle's history called tracker?), which never succeeded for me to find ANYTHING. It looks to me like they started a new system from scratch, while Beagle was sitting there, ready to be used or built upon. However, it would be good to get there feedback. I could also imagine that anybody of the search interface developers you mentioned would be interested in Beagle to live on. Could you also write to some of them, personally? Well, I have to finish my encomium on Beagle by admitting that I am also not capable (time-wise) of maintaining Beagle. But who ever takes it over has my admiration. Cheers, Enrico M. _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
