Hello there, Max
I just installed launchy on my desktop and wow, is pretty cool!
Who are you refering to saying "they want launchy in the desktop"?
It seems to be a pretty nice solution, and it seems like it only
depends on Qt which fits perfectly to the MeeGo/Harmattan future.
So, the task would simply be to "widgetize" launchy and compile it
for ARM and package it? Doesn't seem like such a big task, but maybe
I'm underestimating this? I see it supports plugins (maybe even
QtScript in the future).
Maybe porting it _and_ writing a plugin for it?
I'm not so sure about dooble, though. A browser wich a file manager
and a desktop? I'm pretty much for the old linux philosophy "do only
one thing but do it right". Seems a bit odd to me to mix them. And I
see they next want to add support for tagging mp3s even! There's also
loads of dedicated linux webkit browsers around already, and for
example midori is already ported.
YaCy seems like an interesting thing but I'm not sure how many people
would be using it.
Regards,
Carol
On 21/03/10 17:51, Max wrote:
Hi Carol,
good idea, an index is not bad, but what about starting with a website
index? www.yacy.net
it allows to search for webpages in a browser,
a mameo compatible browser is http://dooble.sf.net
Maybe you want to compile it?
as it has a file explorer integrated, you do not need a new indexer,
as they want launchy.sf.net in the desktop, that is the indexer you
can look for?
Regards
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Shapeshifter<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Maemo developers,
now that Maemo has been accepted as a mentoring organization for GSoC 2010,
I'd like to ask about joining the action. I've been pondering on what
project to look into, as quite a few of them interest me (including porting
Remmina, the Ebook reader idea and an idea of my own, which revolves around
recovering data from your device if it gets stolen and getting a GPS lock
upon sending it an SMS or similar things), but I think I'll settle for the
"Global Search Application" Project.
What is it about? I'll just rephrase the proposal from the project ideas
page and then share my ideas on how to implement and present it:
== Global Search Application
An application which indexes local files and content and supports searching
for files and content in a convenient and appealing fashion as well as
opening results in their respective application.
== Thoughts about presentation and implementation
The search application should respond quickly and present results in an
appealing fashion while the user is typing - possibly supported by
thumbnails - and should open them in the appropriate application if
possible. It should also include searching for contacts (including contact
fields, e.g. jabber nicknames and such), SMS, emails and other content
commonly stored on the device. Indexing shouldn't waste battery life or
impact performance while the user is actively using the device.
While looking around for clues, I've seen that this idea has been around for
a while with lots of discussions happening around the 2008 Maemo summit (
https://wiki.maemo.org/Desktop_Search_Hackfest ). Solutions discussed
included Strigi, Beagle and Xesam, but it seems like there hasn't been a
final product of sorts. I myself have been thinking about adapting some more
streamlined solutions like locate (updatedb), and building around those.
Quite interesting for such a device would be rlocate because it's small,
fast and will know about file changes, but that needs it's own kernel module
which might not be feasable for the platform. If using one of these, there'a
also another component needed for indexing file content, and of course there
need to be special components for accessing the maemo-specific data like
contacts and so on. There's definitely lots of way we could do this, and the
preferred method would need to be found.
Concrete tasks would include collecting the existing bits and pieces,
choosing the grounds to build upon, writing or adapting, porting and
packaging a backend indexer, writing a frontend, preferrably as a widget,
and conduction reliability and speed tests.
== About myself
My name is Carol Alexandru and I'm studying Computer Sciences at the
University of Zurich, Switzerland (UZH) in the 4th semester. I've been a
Linux user for around 5 years and have lots of experience regarding the CLI
and the underlying mechanisms of Linux. During my study I've acquired skills
in modeling, project planning and of course programming - the usual stuff.
I'm highly motivated to work for the community and to write open source
software. I've been working on a larger project of my own (creating a
multi-user music streaming server, which I have not yet released; It needs a
few finishing touches) and lots of minor hacks and tools, mostly for the
CLI. I'm also the author of the "Alarmed" Qt/CLI wrapper around
alarmd/libalarm for Maemo 5 ( http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46594
). Now, I *love* Python but I also know the more common languages like
C/C++. During my spare time, I like to just hack small scripts'n'stuff,
maintain our student clubs servers and infrastructure and have a couple of
beers with friends. And of course I've got an N900 ;-)
Regarding other commitments during summer, I need to pass a few crucial
exams in the first half of June. Apart from that, I'm 100% available.
== Contact info
I'm always on IRC in irc.freenode.net#maemo, nickname "Shapeshifter", and of
course you can reach me through this email address:
[email protected].
So, I know it's a bit early for a "full-blown" application, as the period
starts on March 28th, so please consider this an expression of my interest.
:-)
I'd really like for possible mentors on this to get in touch with me to
discuss details and see if this is a project fitting into Maemo and if I'm
the right person for the job. I think quite a few people would like the idea
and profit from such an application.
Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Carol Alexandru
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