Hi Adam, On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> wrote: >> A major reason why I gave up on Beagle and >> the whole Linux desktop itself was due to this attitude. I guess the >> developers of those apps are more thick skinned or resilient than I >> was? I don't know. > > Time is also probably a factor, Beagle was AFAIK really the first > desktop Mono application of any note. It was also ahead of its time as > a concept [I recall no shortage of long rambling posts about how it was > useless anyway].
Indeed. Writing a Mono application at the time was a... challenge. Beagle surely had its own set of performance problems, and the tools to profile and debug them were largely non-existent. We even wrote a few of them (heap-buddy, which has only recently been superseded by a new built-in profiler). I would have killed for a working debugger. :) When Beagle was started, the concept was actually pretty clear to us. We weren't looking to create a Spotlight for Linux (indeed, Beagle was first publicly demoed on the day Apple announced Spotlight) -- it was really designed as a means to an end: Dashboard needed an index to make intelligent queries against and get contextual clues. Beagle really grew out of that need, and became a user-centric tool. Joe _______________________________________________ dashboard-hackers mailing list dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
