Reformatted excerpts from Stephen Patterson's message of 2008-07-21: > So we'd then need a collection of custom client applications to search > and/or browse the index? > > This sounds quite a bit like the beagle project - > http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page
Thanks for the pointer. It does sound quite similar. Having played with Beagle a bit, I think they key difference is that I'm envisioning STS as being the primary interface to your precious infos, whereas Beagle seems more of a supplemental index of data that's primarily handled by other apps. This has a couple implications, including who's responsible for storing the files (STS: STS; Beagle: you and your apps), and what the user experience looks like (Beagle: use Thunderbird, then call up Beagle for help; STS: browse everything through your client, starting with a search for label "inbox", and call up other applications for handling foreign mime types). If anything, Beagle is closer to Sup classic, and STS brings us closer to Gmail. -- William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
