gnome "storage" project, smart windows

[Matt Price]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:10:52AM +0000, David Hart wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:12:32PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> 
> > anyway, I love beagle, am just getting used to its awesome power, but
> > I would like to have slightly more robust interfaces e.g. "smart
> > folders" à la MacOS, with beagle-derived search results updated every
> > time you open the "folder"  (so it's not really a folder, but an alias
> > for a command I guess.  
> 
> That's not the way I understand that Beagle works.  AFAIU the kernel
> notifies Beagle of changes in the filesystem and Beagle schedules
> those changes for investigation.  In practice, I've found that Beagle
> often reacts to those changes in less than a second (you can see some
> problems that was causing me with Mutt (the mail reader that I use )
> in a thread from last week).

that's my understanding too.  The best search client for beagle
updates search resultsi n real time.  What I'd like is a way to access
common searches in a persistent way -- in effect like having a script
that launches best with a particular query, but from the interface
point of view it would be cool if the search results could look like
filesi n a folder.  I don't see that this is incompatible in principle
with beagle, but I also don't know enough aboutthe inner workings
thereof to be sure.  

> 
> As much as I love Beagle I've had to disable it for the time being.
> I've had problems with the index that Beagle creates growing too much,
> and worse, Mono (on which Beagle depends) has been grabbing memory (like
> a memory leak).

... not related to not having xattr enabled in fstab, is this?  I find
beagle to be working pretty well at the moment...

matt

> 
> I wish I could spend the time to help with bug reports but I just
> can't afford it at the moment (I need to find some paid employment).
> 
> Thanks for the links above (which I'll investigate tomorrow).
> 

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Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
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