gnome "storage" project, smart windows

[David Hart]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:12:32PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:

>  some time ago there was an ambitious gnome project called storage: 
> http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/features.html
> 
> it seems to have died, far as I can tell.  Beagle is the nearest thing
> we've got, I guess, though KDE is working on this thing called tenor,
> for kde 4:
> http://appeal.kde.org/wiki/Tenor
> 
> 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).

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).

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).

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>