Creating new backend - help wanted

2005-07-05 Thread D Bera
Hi I am writing a backend AkregatorQueryable for Akregator (KDE RSS Reader) based on Liferea's code. All I did was write AkregatorQueryable (similar to LifereaQueryable) and make changes in the beagled Makefile to have it compiled. The driver is compiling fine and feed data seems to be properly in

Re: Creating new backend - help wanted

2005-07-05 Thread D Bera
it is searching (I am getting lost in the response/query details). Thanks, D. Bera On 7/5/05, Fredrik Hedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > If you're using the CVS version of Beagle you can inspect your index > with the beagle-manage-index tool, for example: >

Re: Creating new backend - help wanted

2005-07-06 Thread D Bera
I changed them but to no effect. Also what is the rationale behind NewKeyword and New ? I used Luke to check the indices of Liferea and Akregator. Observed that Akregator index has no items in field while Liferea has lots of words in the items of field . Rest looked similar. OK. Figured out the p

Re:Creating new backend - ... (XMLSerializer and CDATA)

2005-07-06 Thread D Bera
Hi The backend xml files store the text as CDATA e.g. So, I need to create a proper definition of the document structure for it to be properly parsed. I searched in the net but it seems there is some problem with XMLSerializer and reading CDATA. Using the serializer in the normal way assign

indexing Maildir mails

2005-07-19 Thread D Bera
Hi, The changelog of beagle-0.12 says it can index maildir mails. Does that mean mails in maildir format from any mail application ? I tried to change local_path, imap_path etc. in EvolutionMailQueryable to point to a maildir directory I have but there was no response in the debug output.

Re: indexing Maildir mails

2005-07-19 Thread D Bera
It seems that the directory structure for maildir is not standardised. This page talks about two possible formats: http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?action=browse&diff=2&id=MuttFaq/Maildir Ubuntu seems to be coming up with yet another naming standard (more at https://wiki.ubuntu.com//MailStorageStand

open hits with kde mimetype application

2005-07-21 Thread D Bera
Using gnomevfs to open files and folders is good but nevertheless sometimes it causes some problems in KDE. Primarily "Reveal in File manager" doesnt work and next, some of the hits are opened with wrong arguments (e.g. showfoto opens images as showfoto %i %m --caption %c hit.path) which kde knows

Re: Maildir support status

2005-07-27 Thread D Bera
> Maildir support has been integrated in version 0.0.12, but has drastically > improved in the current CVS version. This, in combination with the speed > improvements (especially during beagled startup) makes indexing my entire > maildir (over 10,000 mails) feasible. Where exactly is the difficult

Re: Maildir support status

2005-07-28 Thread D Bera
> The problems with maildir files showing up and behaving as files rather > than mails are just bugs in the tiles and Best. That's where those > should be fixed. The problems, as i understand, is regarding the mime-type of the files. Since the mail apps may add all kinds of custom headers, it is

Re: Beagle suddenly stopped showing matching Gaim log entries in search results, please help

2005-07-29 Thread D Bera
It might not be due to all these services,updates. To figure out if the index is properly created, you can use Luke (http://www.getopt.org/luke/) - it has a java gui to show you the documents, indexed terms in the index. You can also search the indices for words (similar to searching using best o

Re: Beagle suddenly stopped showing matching Gaim log entries in search results, please help

2005-07-30 Thread D Bera
> Hello D Bera > > i don't know to work on luke, > and i don't know what information you are expecting from me, > so i think chatting is the best way, > so when do you come in #dashboard channel? Luke is a handy tool to check the index created by beagle index

Re: "You need kernel 2.6.13"

2005-08-01 Thread D Bera
I think CVS needs inotify-0.24 (the syscall based patch). Get the latest rc-release at kernel.org. I think it has it. On 8/1/05, Aviram Jenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Running beagled (CVS version) produces the following error: > > inotify_init: Function not implemented > Inotify no

Re: Beagle suddenly stopped showing matching Gaim log entries in search results, please help

2005-08-01 Thread D Bera
> > when i opened Gaim Log index there is no field called text, > > every other fields has some content, > > In Beagle's Lucene indices, Text is a unstored field --- which means > that you can search against it, but you can't reconstruct the the > contents of the field. This is why it doesn't sho

kmailqueryable

2005-08-04 Thread D Bera
Hi I noticed that beagled/kmailqueryable has been added. I have a comment regarding that. There are many mail-apps out there who store their mails in maildir format (and some of them are hugely popular e.g. pine, mutt... - widely used in academia where beagle is being extenstively to find pape

Re: kmailqueryable

2005-08-04 Thread D Bera
> > There are many mail-apps out there who store their mails in maildir > > format (and some of them are hugely popular e.g. pine, mutt... - > > widely used in academia where beagle is being extenstively to find > > papers/mails/reports etc). Once KMail backend is in, there will be > > requests to

Re: kmailqueryable

2005-08-04 Thread D Bera
> Yes, but every queryable has to do this anyway. We used to have a > general crawler class. It turned out to not be very useful. You have Ahh,... I was aiming towards this. Since it was tested and failed, no question of trying it again. There would be a new kmailqueryable in bugzilla by next w

kmailqueryable submitted (Was Re: kmailqueryable)

2005-08-05 Thread D Bera
mails in these nested subfolders There might be issues if inotify isnt enabled, pls report them too. - D. On 8/4/05, D Bera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but every queryable has to do this anyway. We used to have a > > general crawler class. It turned out to not be very

Re: kmailqueryable submitted (Was Re: kmailqueryable)

2005-08-06 Thread D Bera
> i checked out your latest version of KMailQueryable > it seems you still hav'n included a fall-back mechanism if Inotify not > available, > so i was unable to check out your latest version too, Thanks for reporting. There was a bug - fixed that in the new patch. Pls check and report. Also, if y

Re: "You need kernel 2.6.13"

2005-08-06 Thread D Bera
> Hi, > > Running beagled (CVS version) produces the following error: > > inotify_init: Function not implemented > Inotify not supported! You need a 2.6.13 kernel or later with > CONFIG_INOTIFY > > I'm running kernel 2.6.12.2 with the inotify-0.23-rml-2.6.12-15.patch and > CONFIG_INOTIFY=y.

thumbnail of indexed files

2005-08-09 Thread D Bera
Hi Does best show thumbnails of indexed files ? For me it only shows thumbnails of images (and might be a few other types) but not of text files, html files, pdf files etc... (like nautilus). Do I need to enable/install something ? Thanks, - Bera ___

problems in CVS

2005-08-13 Thread D Bera
I tried the CVS head today - since more-better-lucene-branch has been merged. A few things I noted while I was trying to do keyword based query: 1) the webservices code is broken - wont compile (number of arguments to DoQuery(...) has increased) 2) The query interface is quite clean now with separa

Re: Beagle turns my terminal to gobbledegook :s

2005-08-17 Thread D Bera
> and I am seeing strange behaviour in my terminal (running beagled --fg > --debug) when running beagled > > http://incandescant.net/~josh/files/beagle-term.png > > I'm not certain this is a beagle problem but I only see this when > running beagled and as you can see from the screenshot other tab

Re: best (beagle-query) syntax options

2005-08-18 Thread D Bera
I submitted a patch for keyword queries in best (you know .. searching for album/artist/author etc) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311060 but then the query API(???) changed. Its wont be difficult to make a new patch with the new changes (and enable AND,OR,NOT style queries) but I am ju

Re: New filter to test

2005-08-30 Thread D Bera
Hi David, Can you file a bug in bugzilla and attach the files there. That way its easier for anybody who wants to try them out and give feedback. - dBera On 8/30/05, David Coeurjolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've developped a new (simple) TeX filter with a complete list

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-10 Thread D Bera
Isnt this more of a nautilus bug (read: enhancement) than a best bug ? If so, there should be a bug filed for nautilus. Is there already something ? > > The problem is that the file is not highlighted in nautilus. If the > > folders contains many files, this makes it difficult to locate the > > fi

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-12 Thread D Bera
> Interesting. Ideally though I'd prefer if you just passed a file URI > into nautilus on the command-line and have it highlight the file. If > you do it now, you get the error "Couldn't display . The location > is not a folder." That would make things dead simple. That would make nautilus inc

Re: System.NullReferenceException Beagle CVS

2005-09-16 Thread D Bera
takes a considerable chunk of time. The issue is basically that during an unexpected shutdown, the lucene index gets corrupted in some manor. Cheers, Kevin Kubasik On 9/16/05, D Bera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a similar problem and the solution for me was to delete .beagle >

Re: System.NullReferenceException Beagle CVS

2005-09-16 Thread D Bera
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 2005/9/16, D Bera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > The issue is basically that during an unexpected shutdown, the lucene > > index gets corrupted in some manor. > > > Oh no, re-indexing for >40.000

Re: Some 0.1.0 questions

2005-09-18 Thread D Bera
> Q: I have a large archive of movie trailers, where Beagle could be very > handy in handing me results quickly, but I rarely use beagle for this > since it seems to produce weird results depending on what I search for. > For example. > File: Total Recall.mov > I find the file using keyword "Recall

Re: beagle memory

2005-09-19 Thread D Bera
It might be useful to know if this is due to any specific backend ( the output of beagle-index-info while beagled is running reports active backends). > > Found a second (third) issue with beagle 0.1 after running beagled for a > > while (2 hours or so) it uses 800M of memory? > @devs: > Could t

Re: Memory usage

2005-09-19 Thread D Bera
Check out the discussion (currently going on) at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2005-September/msg00069.html ___ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers

Age of marketing

2005-09-22 Thread D Bera
Boy, this is the age of marketing. As if learning from the ingenious marketing techniques of Apple and Microsoft, Kat (the KDE desktop err... file search tool) is now being hosted on http://kat.mandriva.com/ The front page looks professional and mentions the "Softpedia 5/5" and "Linux+ recommended"

Re: best doesn't show the mail icon

2005-09-26 Thread D Bera
Just a thought, after you get the results, press ctrl-u in best, that opens the source window, copy the contents of the source window to a file and attach the file. On 9/26/05, Aviram Jenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Silly question, but it's been bothering me for a while. > > The mail backend re

Re: best doesn't show the mail icon

2005-09-26 Thread D Bera
> just trying to wrap my head around holmes) but the Kmail backend is > new, i dont think its results are returning read/not-read status yet, > and as a result, best gets confused. But thats just brainstorming. Thats not how it should happen. If it marked read or answered a different icon is used,

Re: Best Clear

2005-10-01 Thread D Bera
Hi Dennis, Thanks for trying to fix the bug. However, I found that your fix has a side effect. It basically sends a query of "" to the daemon which returns no hits - as a result clearing the canvas. This causes an unnecessary query being send to the daemon. I think to the clear the results, one

Re: Beagle 0.1.1

2005-10-04 Thread D Bera
> Previous problem persists, minor change -- loops now w/o setting > BEAGLE_EXERCISE_THE_DOG: > inotify_init: Function not implemented > Inotify not supported! You need a 2.6.13 kernel or later with > CONFIG_INOTIFY enabled.WARN: Could not initialize inotify ^ Without

Re: Beagle 0.1.1

2005-10-04 Thread D Bera
> That's not unreasonable, of course, but it's not recursing, and so is > looping very fast! That is, it's not actually indexing any files, > which are all in subdirectories. . . I also noticed similar behaviour - wait for some time - it takes a while for the file system backend to find the subdi

Re: Beagle 0.1.1

2005-10-04 Thread D Bera
> >> That's not unreasonable, of course, but it's not recursing, and so is > >> looping very fast! That is, it's not actually indexing any files, > >> which are all in subdirectories. . . > > > > I also noticed similar behaviour - wait for some time - it takes a > > while for the file system backe

Re: Multiple copies of best

2005-10-08 Thread D Bera
You might find the beagle web interface useful. http://beaglewiki.org/WebServiceInterface With webservices enabled you can user your favourite browser to beagle for that obscure document. On 10/8/05, Nigel Tao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to hook up my deskbar-applet to launch best win

Re: Restarting w/o losing the indices

2005-10-12 Thread D Bera
Are you indexing files on NFS (or something mounted remotely) ? This seems to be a problem with index synchronization (which, I think, copies the index locally, does more indexing and copies it back upon shutdown). I noticed there is a flag to turn off this feature: $ beagle-config daemon ToggleIn

Re: Restarting w/o losing the indices

2005-10-12 Thread D Bera
the indexes to a separate directory, so if you don't want to re-index everything, move them to ~/.beagle/Indexes. * Configuration option to disable synchronization totally. ... On 10/12/05, D Bera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you indexing files on NFS (or something mounted

Re: Liferea and IndexingService backends not working in 0.1.1?

2005-10-14 Thread D Bera
I once had the same error. But then I deleted .beagle/Indexes/LifereaIndex. The error never occurred after that. (I am using beagle-cvs.) - dBera On 10/11/05, Darren Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Indexing of web pages seems to have stopped since I switched to 0.1.1 and > Liferea is

pybeagle: next best thing after python and beagle

2005-10-21 Thread D Bera
Kudos to Raphael Slinckx for writing a http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319417";>python binding for beagle. Fancy desktop apps and widget like gnome, kicker applets, gnome desklets, superkaramba themes should start pouring in now. Go Beagle!!! PS: This post is intended to share the good

Re: pybeagle: next best thing after python and beagle

2005-10-21 Thread D Bera
Great. Then go ahead and let the world know the miracles of a little dog with its python friend :) We should have a wiki page at beaglewiki.org on "Fun Stuff with Beagle", where people can post/link their tools/utils using libbeagle/pybeagle/perlbeagle/rubybeagle/shellbeagle ... and ofcourse c#-be

Re: beagled stuck, won't shutdown -- debugging suggestions?

2005-10-22 Thread D Bera
Just for curiousity, what backends are in use ? And for the File backend, do you have all kinds of file or a large proportion of some specific type of file ? - d. On 10/22/05, Nico Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > Is the memory usage issue related to this too, or is that separate? >

Re: Problem/Patch regarding wv1

2005-10-30 Thread D Bera
http://wvware.sourceforge.net/#news wv-1.2.0 was released on Oct-13th. They explicitly mention ... "This release uses libgsf instead of libole2, libxml2 instead of Expat, and glib instead of libiconv. wvSummary is much more useful, the Beagle folks can stop distributing a patched version of 1.0.3 b

Re: Question to beagled & character encodings

2005-10-31 Thread D Bera
Its a known issue. IIRC the bug is also filed in bugzilla. It should be fixed shortly. - d. On 10/31/05, Stephan Hegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have indexed a mix of English and German html documents downloaded > as "Web page complete" via Firefox. Everything works fine and the

beagle for klik://

2005-11-15 Thread D Bera
Hi I noticed that there is a beagle package for klik. However, the comments say that it doesnt work :(. Did anyone here give it a try ? Beagle installs mostly mono-dll files and some so-files as glue-code - all of which are relocatable. It would be easy to create klik recipes - only I could

Re: searching for parts of words

2005-11-15 Thread D Bera
> HTML documents may carry a lang tag: Yes. Thats good. The bad part is that this works only for HTML files. Its easy for web-search engines because all (mostly) they index are html files. Things are a little unclear in the desktop search area. ___ Dashb

Re: Error building beagle 0.1.2

2005-11-17 Thread D Bera
> ** (/usr/lib/mono/1.0/mcs.exe:15460): WARNING **: The following assembly > referenced from /usr/lib/mono/gmime-sharp/gmime-sharp.dll could not be > loaded: > Assembly: glib-sharp(assemblyref_index=1) > Version:2.0.0.0 > Public Key: 35e10195dab3c99f > The assembly was not

Re: beagle-0.1.1 and /tmp

2005-11-19 Thread D Bera
AFAIK this problem was fixed a few release back and tmp file behaviour should be ok in 0.1.1+. Can you confirm that the files in /tmp are created by beagle ? On 11/19/05, Joris Vuffray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm still experiencing the same problem with 0.1.2 > Any idea? > > Rgds, >

Re: Beagle and Thunderbird

2005-11-21 Thread D Bera
I did a quick google search on thunderbird and couldnt find any way to open a particular mail in thunderbird. Specifically 1) How to uniquely specify a particular mail in thunderbird's mail-store 2) Given that unique "uri", how to open that mail using thunderbird. Since GDS, CDS, YDS and MSN (with

Re: Querying expense and weak hashtables

2005-11-26 Thread D Bera
> I've noted in the past that querying a lot is one way to bump up beagled's > memory usage fairly easily. > > There's a discussion going on at the dotLucene forums about a fairly serious > memory problem in Lucene's field caching: > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1378460&forum_

Re: Beagle thinks Im running windows?

2005-11-30 Thread D Bera
Mono keeps a mapping between the dll files and the _actual_ .so files. It looks like the mapping was incorrect on your machine.There is generally a blabla.dll.config file which provides the mapping from blabla.dll to blabla.so. You have to wait for someone with a better knowledge of dll mapping to

Re: Beagle plugins in scripting languages

2005-12-02 Thread D Bera
Hi Just for fun, I created a beagle filter using Boo (a python like scripting language generating .Net assembly). I was initially using IronPython but the recent versions of IronPython uses .Net framework 2.0 using generics; so IronPython wont build with current mono. Note that, you need beagle in

Re: Beagle and nautilus

2005-12-09 Thread D Bera
> For people not reading Planet GNOME - Alexander Larsson continue work > to integrate eagle with Nautilus - > http://blogs.gnome.org/view/alexl/2005/12/07/0 > Code is in GNOME CVS. It works - for me searching from Nautilus > returns hits faster than Best. ^ I have

Re: Beagle and nautilus

2005-12-10 Thread D Bera
> Hi, > > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 16:44 +, Joel M wrote: > > Hmm, the fact about beagle - it's a great product - but.. > > > > Beagle is the best opensource indexing service out there, the sad thing > > is that it's depends on gnome libs - > > it whould been much more fun if it where freedesktop

is this some kind of leak ?

2005-12-11 Thread D Bera
I observed the following while trying to understand where/why does beagle-query increases memory usage. I used desc-heap profiler to print the live objects before and after a query and noticed a substantial increase: before: Checkpoint at 12859 for gc System.MonoType : 80364 System.String :

Re: Beagle and Thunderbird

2005-12-19 Thread D Bera
That question crossed my mind. But I dont have access to GDS and from the command line options of linux thunderbird I couldnt figure it out myself. If someone who has access to GDS can figure it out, it will be very heplful. Search for something that produces an email has one of the results, then c

Re: Beagle and Thunderbird

2005-12-19 Thread D Bera
> the "view in thunderbird" url is: > http://127.0.0.1:4664/openemail&product=57?id=285612+861626693+ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&action=d&s=6RPolvLqGXsw94VzampdPXdrozU Just what I feared - the email opening is handled by GDS itself - and as Kevin says, probably using Thunderbird api. So, the next ste

Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.1.4

2005-12-23 Thread D Bera
beagle-settings / beagle-config is crashing with mono-1.1.12. Someone in the IRC also mentioned that same with mono-1.1.11. For a temporary patch till the vacation fever is over, refer to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324904 - dBera PS: I am pretty sure this happens with earlier versi

Re: KonquerorHistory always shows True in index-info

2006-01-21 Thread D Bera
Recent versions of beagle ship with a Konqueror browsing history backend. Thats why you are seeing KonquerorHistory in the indexes. Tha backend indexes the webpages you view using konqueror. The always showing of "Indexing: True" is a bug, however, it should be appropriately set to "Indexing: True"

kde client for beagle

2006-01-22 Thread D Bera
(Gnome users can move on, nothing to see here :) ) beagle-fans, I hope you are all enjoying the best-beagle-release-so-far and the cool new UI. The new UI can do everything one requires and possibly more. However, some Kde users might be unsatisfied due to the actions associated for search results

Re: in Beagle 0.20 some backends stops indexing after some time,

2006-01-23 Thread D Bera
> i installed Beagle 0.20 in SUSE 10 from ULB Gnome rpms, > it is work fine, but not for a long time, > actually, > file system backend is always working. > but IndexingService backend, > KMail backend and Kopete back all are stops indexing after some time, > they indexes unindexed contents only af

Re: kde client for beagle

2006-01-23 Thread D Bera
In case I am misunderstood, beagle-search should work in KDE. If you see any bugs while using beagle-search in KDE, a bug should be filed. Except if you see any problems when you click on a result and beagle-search doesnt open the result in the preferred application, or you click on the action

Re: Rebuilding beagle-0.2.0 causes reindex of Liferea?

2006-01-25 Thread D Bera
Open the log file for the session which purged the index. Look for a line saying something like: Debug: Purging foo/bar.beagle/Indexes/LifereaIndex If you can locate it, there will be some more information in the nearby messages. > It looks like an exception was thrown during an earlier Liferea

beagle crashing in mono-1.1.13.2

2006-01-27 Thread D Bera
Is anybody seeing any crash in beagle File backend with mono-1.1.13.2. beagled --allow-backend Files runs for quite a while, scanning directories for changes and suddenly, whooom... (Segmentation fault) The stacktrace from the core is as follows: (gdb) #0 0x08114142 in GC_push_all_stack () #1

beagle without gnome (WAS Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.2.1)

2006-01-30 Thread D Bera
experience, you should also have: > * Mono 1.1.13 > * Evolution-sharp 0.10.2 > * libgsf 1.12.1 and gsf-sharp 0.6 > * Either wv 1.2.0, or a *patched* wv 1.0.3 --- the patch is available from > http://users.avafan.com/~fredrik/beagle/wv-libole2-readonly.patch > * An inotify 0.24-

kde client: yaBi 0.6 released

2006-01-31 Thread D Bera
Beagle/KDE fans, A new release of yaBi is in town. If you don't remember, yaBi is a python-kde frontend to beagle. This release has some GUI cleanups and more functionality enhancements. yaBi now allows a user to start/stop beagle service, search/retrieve results from beagle service, view

Re: Opening mp3 mbox...

2006-02-05 Thread D Bera
> Hi, > Is beagled trying to index a .mp3 as a mbox? > Isnt there checks? > > Debug: received: Finished indexing 0 messages > Debug: Opening mbox /home/nisse/Mail/Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade.mp3 > Debug: Helper Size: VmRSS=24,2 MB, size=1,85, 21,4% > Debug: Helper Size: VmRSS=24,2 MB, size=1,

wiki mainpage corrupted (probably vandalism)

2006-02-10 Thread D Bera
Trying to load beagle-wiki main page is causing some database error. I checked the history and found quite a few (!) advertisements of http://www.fda-drug.com/ added in the last 2 edits. Doesnt look like beagle stuff. I couldnt revert to an earlier version, probably need admin. Time to act, Joe :)

Re: Snippiting Issues In IM Logs

2006-02-15 Thread D Bera
Snippet generation was "optimised" for best. It needs to be polished for beagle-search. Moreover, the current implementation has a few shortcomings; that needs to be fixed too. In tune with your previous email, this is a major bug waiting to be fixed. IIRC, there are bugs in bugzilla on this issue.

Re: Current TODO

2006-02-15 Thread D Bera
> I dunno, search engine optimization is not something I have much > experience in, but one of the major blockers for beagle when compared > to search applications such as GDS and Spotlight is the speed of a > partial query. While a complete query is quick, the first fragments of > a word (such as

Re: Current TODO

2006-02-19 Thread D Bera
; > and almost too-good-to-be-true API docs, but little mention of the > > beast beneath. > > > > I plan on checking yahoo for some developer info on there desktop > > search, but it really hasn't been popularized much, so I can't say I > > know much about it,

Re: Beagle and NFS

2006-02-21 Thread D Bera
> 3) Adding an infrastructure for networked searching (Thinking out loud) What happens if the unix socket in beagle is replaced by tcp socket ? I dont remember the code, but it doesnt look like beagle is using some special feature of unix socket which is not present in tcp sockets. That wo

Re: Extended attributes for ext3 and beagle.

2006-02-23 Thread D Bera
> I'd like to ask, why does beagle not use the extended attributes, even > though I have them. > > mount gives me: > /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,user_xattr) > > > I have the relevant XATTR in the kernel config. > > yet, when I run beagled, the first thing it gives me is this: > Warn: Extended attr

kBeagleBar-0.1

2006-02-28 Thread D Bera
Hi A few days back I saw spotlight in action, for the first time. And I was impressed. deskbar applet doesnt quite integrate into KDE, hence a few hours of exercise created a spotlight klone - kBeagleBar KDE kicker applet. Its similar to deskbar (highly toned down, only works with beagle).

Re: Current TODO

2006-02-28 Thread D Bera
> We're already using the lowest-level API Lucene has to offer for this, > so our matching is just about as fast as we can get it. The bulk of the > time at this point is extracting data from the matches and sending them > over the wire. Maybe we could have a "fast path" which extracts and > retu

Filter writing becomes even easier

2006-03-09 Thread D Bera
Writing beagle filters became even easier. Joe checked in FilterExternal with which the output of any program can be indexed. (As of now only text output can be indexed, metadata/properties can not be indexed). For e.g. to index the text content of tex files, find any tex2ascii or tex2txt progr

Re: How do I change the web port that Beagle runs on?

2006-03-10 Thread D Bera
> which seems to be because there is another webservice already running on > my port . I'm running Ubuntu Breezy with the 0.11 release > > I've trawled the wiki and manpages and this list but cant find how to > change the webservices port number. Webservices are disabled in the current build.

Re: Basic Zip Archive Filter

2006-03-12 Thread D Bera
> It doesn't do much, but I've felt that we should at least index the > files stored in an archive for the longest time, so I'm starting that You mean something like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319412 > project. I'll add the tar/gzip variants later tonight. > This indexes the names

Re: Epiphany Extention Conf [Patch]

2006-03-20 Thread D Bera
> > > On a similar note, I am trying to figure out a better way to index web > > > content, the current 'as-viewed' solution is a major resource hog and > > > significantly slows the viewing of pages (especially some of the > > > ajaxed ones like Gmai). > > > > It should be converted to using the i

Re: Possible Thunderbird Backend

2006-03-22 Thread D Bera
> I know this has been brought up several times in the past, and has > generally been rejected, but I have managed to dig up an interesting > (and relevant) tidbit. > > Thunderbird does support a URL scheme to open mails from the command > line. Most of this was me poking around random code/irc but

Re: Possible Thunderbird Backend

2006-03-22 Thread D Bera
een unable to extract or locate > how the number variable is determined. If someone wants to give me a > hand, once we find where that number comes from, its easy from there. > > Cheers, > Kevin Kubasik > > On 3/22/06, D Bera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know t

Re: Possible Thunderbird Backend

2006-03-23 Thread D Bera
ay, but I have used most of my cards, > > probably am gonna need someone else to lend a hand if they have > > thunderbird installed and a free moment. (or just more time to nag > > people over at irc.mozilla.org until we find someone who actually > > works on this component of

Re: beagle on laptop

2006-03-26 Thread D Bera
> Asking gnome-power-manager is the most portable option. But in Dapper we That wouldnt work for users not running gnome. As of now, beagled (the daemon/service running in the background) doesnt require any specific DE to be running. There must a sane way to get power information... maybe some int

Re: External filter question

2006-03-28 Thread D Bera
Copy external-filters.xml to /usr/local/etc Currently beagle is looking for external-filters.xml in sysconfdir, which I think for your case is /usr/local/etc. IMO, it should be fixed. external-filters.xml should be grabbed from sysconfdir/beagle or something like that. > Hi all, > > 1. I compil

Re: How to check which filters are installed?

2006-03-29 Thread D Bera
> How can I check which filters are actually installed and used? I have the There is now (CVS today). $ beagle-info --list-filter => lists the filters available, which file the filter resides (all filters shipped with beagle come from the same file Filters.dll) and the mimetypes and extensions t

Re: Problem with xsl files

2006-04-01 Thread D Bera
> When running the attached xsl file through the indexer (or through > beagle-extact-content) it stays in an infinite loop: > Warn: FilterXslt: error parsing xml file: System.Xml.XmlException: 'doc' is > undeclared namespace. Line 71, position 74. > Beagle is the CVS version from March 29th. Even

Re: Inital Deb Filter

2006-04-03 Thread D Bera
> Hey, I can file this in the bugzilla if that's a better place. Just > looking for a little feedback. Thats always a better place. > > ar archive format. So dpkg-deb it was. If anyone can think of a property You are catching both stdout and stderr - make sure you dont insert anything from stderr.

Re: Inital Deb Filter

2006-04-03 Thread D Bera
> And I was just planning on adding description as one big keyword, but > since some descriptions can get rather long, is that an issue? Descriptions arent keywords :) but nice and searchable text (use Property.New (...)) If I were a user, I would like to see the description returned to me when I

running beagle on a server over nfs

2006-04-04 Thread D Bera
Hello beagle-pals, Those of you who (want to) run beagle on a central fileserver and use it over nfs in clients, here is an exercise which might lead you (us) to another solution. Traditional way to index nfs-exported directories involve periodic scan of filesystem and some clever relo

Re: beagle queryable for Gentoo installed ebuilds

2006-04-05 Thread D Bera
> agree about the need for a performance increase in beagle-build-index, > I (like many others) have found that even its 'incremental' updates > take a very long time. I remember seeing one post on this. I suspect it is because one or more of these three: - storing index information in sqlite (as

Re: beagle queryable for Gentoo installed ebuilds

2006-04-05 Thread D Bera
(Also sending to list :-) ) Everything happening with Sqlite and EA is in the file beagled/FileAttributesStore_Sqlite.cs If something doesnt make sense, ping back. It might be possible that sqlite operations could be improved. > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 07:36, you wrote: > > Ideally re-running

Re: running beagle on a server over nfs

2006-04-06 Thread D Bera
> i followed your approached. i created a new user test and > exported .beagle/Indexes and .beagle/TextCache as nfs over localhost. > both i had to export as rw. to avoid ownership problems i added the > client user(crito) to the group of the server user (test). > the client beagle (as user crito)

Re: running beagle on a server over nfs

2006-04-07 Thread D Bera
> i do the following test (username crito is the client process, username > test is the server process): > 1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/local/bin/beagle-query power > email://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Sent;uid=12 > > this query produces only one result on the client side. on the client > beagled gives me t

Re: Thunderbird Backend

2006-04-11 Thread D Bera
Wow. Atlast someone couragious enough to break into the mork-format and write a parser. You deserve kudos just for that. Thunderbird users, jump in and test :-). - dBera On 4/11/06, Pierre Östlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've spent some time lately working on a Thunderbird backend fo

taming of word (.doc) files

2006-04-11 Thread D Bera
Today somebody on irc was seeking help on indexing word .doc files. Beagle handles word files with wvware. However, there is a bug in wv due to which some offending documents are able to crash the wv library (something which beagle or mono cant do anything about). The user in irc wanted to index a

Re: Inital Deb Filter

2006-04-19 Thread D Bera
> > I also added a 'Package' tile for beagle-search. At the moment it > > doesn't display much extra, but it can easily be configured to show > > dependencies and the like. I was thinking about adding an 'Install' > > option in the context menu any thoughts on that? > > A package tile really only m

Fwd: Re: Inital Deb Filter

2006-04-19 Thread D Bera
> Yeah, I think you're right. I agree with dBera, though: the different > package filters should derive from a common class if we want to display > them on a single tile in the UI. Functionally the deb filter looks > fine. I can commit it, but do you want to refactor it, the RPM filter, > and po

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