I don't mean to sound nostalgic, but back then Beagle was one of the best and fun projects to hack on!
L. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Joe Shaw <j...@joeshaw.org> wrote: > 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 few of them (heap-buddy, which has only recently been superseded by a 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 > _______________________________________________ dashboard-hackers mailing list dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
